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MenuGen deployment as agent-native test

From Andrej Karpathy on Vibe Coding & Agentic Engineering (AI Ascent 2026) · ≈26:37

“It was deploying it on Vercel because I had to work with all these different services and I just string them up and I just go to their settings and the menus, and you know, configure my DNS, and it was just so annoying.”

“I think that would be a good kind of a test for whether or not a lot of our infrastructure is becoming more and more agent native.”

What’s in it

Hear why deploying MenuGen was harder than coding it
A concrete test for whether infrastructure is 'agent-native'
Vision of prompting an LLM to build and deploy end-to-end

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yeah, I'm hoping that there's a lot of agent first infrastructure out there and that you know, for MenuGen famously when I wrote the not I'm not sure how famously, but when I wrote the blog post about MenuGen [laughter] a lot of the work a lot of the trouble was not even writing the code for MenuGen. It was deploying it on Vercel because I had to work with all these different services and I just string them up and I just go to their settings and the menus, and you know, configure my DNS, and it was just so annoying. And so, that's a good example of I would hope that MenuGen that I could give a prompt to an LLM, build MenuGen, and then I didn't have to touch anything, and it's deployed in that same way on the internet. I think that would be a good kind of a test for whether or not a lot of our infrastructure is becoming more and more agent native. And then ultimately, I