Guillermo Rauch
CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.
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Their wordsWhen the details of OpenAI’s agent escape and Hugging Face hack started to emerge, it became clear that agent containment would be one of the most important priorities for any AI infra company.
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Their wordsCoding CLIs keep getting more complicated. Daemons, 3 layers of TUIs, client-server architectures.
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Their wordsThe whole point of a CLI is to deliver intelligence with zero friction, and be unix-like.
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A new kind of economy is being born where agents purchase infrastructure products and services.
Their wordsIt's incredible to watch a new kind of economy be born. Agents purchasing infrastructure products and services.
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Their wordsOne thing the engineering community will (re)discover is that every program can be ① hardened (edge cases squashed, inputs tightened, errors handled) and ② optimized (profiled, benchmarked, rewritten) basically ad infinitum.
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Their wordsWhat's "best for humans" is no longer necessarily "best for business".
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Their wordsSecurity will become a larger and larger function in software companies.
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Their wordsThe last domino to fall will be free energy, which is humanity’s final frontier.
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AI alignmentcreativityAI and science
Their wordsI want AI in the service of understanding the universe and enhancing human cognition and creativity.
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AI slopAI and human skillwritingAI writing
Their wordsWe run a real risk that *reading* gets entirely discounted, because of the exhaustion of getting low-quality and unverified AI prose being thrown at you all the time.
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Their wordsThe new 'procurement bar' will be how ergonomic your product is for *agents*, rather than humans.
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Their wordsOnce that's in place, there's a long tail of SaaS applications that I suspect will never be bought again. They'll be generated.
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Their wordsBtw, breaking apart the agent into these independent parts not only optimizes costs in a big way, it also *massively* improves security and auditability. I'd argue you can't even run a secure agent otherwise!
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Their wordsThe thoroughness with which agents can test and QA software is unrivaled.
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The software of the future will be of a quality and performance never experienced before.
software performancesoftware quality
Their wordsThe software of the future will be of a quality and performance we've never experienced before.
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Their wordsThe coolest thing about the recent wave of AI is that everyone is excited about building. All short-term drama aside, this is an immeasurably good development for the world.
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More software is likely to be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.
Their wordsIt's likely that more software will be produced next year than in all of the history of computing.
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WebAssembly is expected to play a huge role in the future of the web as more code goes native.
Their wordsAs more code goes native, I expect WebAssembly to play a huge role in the future of the web.
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Their wordsThe future is multi-model. Trying to hide the choice confuses and hurts customers, who can't participate in the upside of the most exciting market competition of our times, nor master the best tool for the job.
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Their wordsServerless was the last chapter of the cloud, and Steren helped define the paradigm at Google.
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Their wordsAgents are only as good as the proof-checkers, compilers, type systems, and linters you give them.
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Their wordsAgents are the next frontier, and they require new compute primitives designed for them.
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coding agentscode generationcompilers
Their wordsAgents are the new compilers. They compile intent into fast software.
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Their wordsOur adversaries have the training techniques, the data, and the will to attack. And they won’t be slowed down with “embedded evaluators.” They’ll likely have embedded accelerators!
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Their wordsThe days of language or runtime choice based on human convenience are over.
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AI alignmentAmericacybersecurity
Their wordsThe concerns over AI safety and cybersecurity are legitimate, but we’re risking talking America, the global AI leader, into self-inflicted obsolescence and the obscurity of bureaucracy.
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Their wordsLast week it accelerated to +24.8%. It’s almost inconceivable. Infinite demand of intelligence.
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Their wordsThere's no excuse for software to be slow anymore. Projects like 𝚏𝚏𝚏 and 𝚝𝚊𝚔𝚞𝚖𝚒 leading with speed, compilers like 𝙿𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚢𝚃𝚂 and 𝚙𝚘𝚛𝚏𝚏𝚘𝚛 that can help us upgrade entire ecosystems to native, and 𝚐𝚙𝚞𝚒𝚡 pushing the GPU rendering speed frontier.
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Their wordsSkills are now a valuable form of software, like Emil's world-class design eng work. Projects like 𝚙𝚐𝚋𝚘𝚝, 𝚔𝚗𝚒𝚙, 𝚞𝚗𝚕𝚒𝚐𝚑𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚞𝚜𝚎 create amazing AI engineering loops.
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Their wordsAI is still at its best when it can reuse great components than regenerating every time from first principles.