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Guillermo Rauch
The rise of AI copilots and autonomous agents is redefining what it means to be a developer. In this talk, Guillermo Rauch, CEO of @VercelHQ and creator of Next.js, explores how AI will transform the developer experience shifting our role from writing code to guiding intelligent systems with intent. Join him to glimpse the future where developer productivity, creativity, and scale are supercharged by AI-native tools. Subscribe to this channel for more great content! š http://www.snowflake.com/YTsubscribe/ Click here to start your 30-day free Snowflake trial, which includes $400 worth of free usage: š https://snowflake.com/youtube-dev-trial Explore sample code, download tools, and connect with peers: š https://developers.snowflake.com/ #Snowflake #AIDataCloud #AI #GenAI #ArtificialIntelligence #vercel #nextjs
Please welcome founder and chief executive officer of Versel, Guermo Rouch. Imagine it's 2014. You've got this great idea. You start coding locally, but then you hit wall after wall after wall. Suddenly you're spending more time wiring up routing, compilers, clusters, wrestling with complexity rather than working on the idea itself. This
experience was the founding insight when I started Verscell in 2015. The world's largest companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, they had internal infrastructure that allowed them to build and ship fast. They defined the protocols and the frameworks. The rest of the world didn't have access to that. Versel set out to democratize that advantage. I'm proud to have achieved so much of
this vision. Today, Nex.js is the most popular React framework in the world with 13 million downloads per week. The Verscell platform serves more than a trillion requests per month for over 10 million customers. But we're not done. Not even close. Because the same situation is now happening with AI. This is perhaps the most important
transformation we'll see in our careers. The move from pages to agents. Another way to think about it, going from pixels to agents or from foreground to the background. And no matter where you are in the stack, this paradigm shift changes everything for developers. So what I want to share today is a survival guide for this generation of developers.
Not because I think our jobs are going away. I truly don't. But to survive and thrive, this rapid AI shift requires we change how we think and create because everyone's being disrupted. Even the giants haven't figured it out yet. So first, let me walk you through what's changing across three dimensions. First, the cloud is fundamentally
changing. The infrastructure that powered the first wave of the web doesn't quite work for this next wave of agents. We had a cloud for pages before. You deploy static assets to a CDN. You optimize for page load time. And Google rewarded fast pages with higher rankings, creating a flywheel of more business, more conversion, and more organic traffic.
Today we need a cloud designed for agents. If there used to be a CDN for pages, now we need what I call the CDN for tokens. There are more changes though. Compute used to optimize for load time. Now compute is optimizing for long periods of thinking time. More of our work was in the past one shot request and response. Now it's more background
multi-step workflow compute. And now instead of traditional search rankings, we're embedding intelligence everywhere. Agents are meeting customers where they are. And so that brings me to my next point. Interfaces are fundamentally changing. Before interfaces were predictable and deterministic. you designed a dashboard or app, you