Vercel’s CEO & founder Guillermo Rauch on AI’s impact on web development and front end engineering

In this episode of Gradient Dissent, Guillermo Rauch, CEO & Founder of Vercel, joins host Lukas Biewald for a wide ranging discussion on how AI is changing web development and front end engineering. They discuss how Vercel’s v0 expert AI agent is generating code and UI based on simple ChatGPT-like prompts, the importance of releasing daily for AI applications, and the changing landscape of frontier model performance between open and closed models.

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⏳Timestamps:
00:00 - Intro & Guest Introduction
01:10 - Early Coding Beginnings
04:19 - Open Source Journey
12:43 - Lessons From a Second-Time Founder
18:56 - AI Integration & Avoiding “Random Acts of AI”
19:08 - Introducing V0: AI-Powered Frontend Development
23:52 - Technical Challenges & Solutions in AI-Powered Development
37:27 - Open Source vs. Proprietary AI Models
44:48 - The Future of AI-Native Startups vs. Incumbent Companies
56:43 - Closing Thoughts & Future Vision

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