Guillermo Rauch on Vercel's Shift Toward Agentic Infrastructure
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Stanford Online
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Stanford Online
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Why it matters
Rauch argues platforms must shift from human-facing elastic compute to 'agentic infrastructure' that lets coding agents deploy, secure, and maintain software autonomously over hours or days.
Key quotes
“Writing code doesn't make you special. Deploying code and putting it in front of a customer does make you special.”
Guillermo Rauch
“The learning really begins when a user is confronted with the running version of your code.”
Guillermo Rauch
“Tokens are the new hot commodity.”
Guillermo Rauch
“I like to say that software is basically now free.”
