⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
Nov 1, 2025 · 42:02
Vercel CTO Malte Ubl discusses the company's AI strategy, centered on the new Workflow Development Kit that enables durable, resumable serverless functions with infinite idle time at no cost. He explains how the AI SDK was extracted from v0 and remains deliberately low-level to accommodate emerging patterns, with a direct agent abstraction now stable in version six. Ubl details Vercel's internal agents—including a DevOps agent that investigates production anomalies by querying observability data and logs, solving the recall-precision problem in alerting—and the 'Agent on Every Desk' program that helps large companies build their first three agents. He also covers zero-config Python support for Flask and FastAPI, and a security model that assumes developers cannot be trusted, extracting auth and data access from application code.
