groundcover hosts Next.js IL community & Vercel Founder & CEO, Guillermo Rauch, for a Q&A session

hello everyone super excited to have you move to English for our very special guest um just a world from the sponsor I Adam leading front end development at Grancover we are a cloud observability platform we started from the world of Kubernetes and expanded to everything basically we just released a front end observability solution uh so you can go to our website and try we are working with very cool technologies ebpf uh which allows our users to see data in

seconds or minutes instead of uh months and we are working with a bring your own cloud technology which means all your observability and monitoring data is on your cloud uh we are working with very large uh the largest companies in the world and also meet small uh companies as well and we care very deeply about the community and about our engineering culture and we are hiring so if you are

looking for anything feel free to reach out to me or anyone with the uh ground cover uh logo very excited to have you waiting for the uh Q&A and thank you very much thank you thank you all right so um you know we all know why we're here beer right we're here beer right beer and pizza first everybody's here for beer and pizza that's always the thing that came from no but seriously um today I'm so privileged to have this guest here today like I am thrilled and excited

this isn't five years for me waiting to meet him in person the one the only Gish Rao all right D let's get you a mic welcome thanks for having me a lot of hype better live up to the hype can you believe this happened like in two days no uh it's amazing thank you G thank you Grand Cover and this is one of the I think this is the coolest venue that

I've ever seen a meet up be held at so uh we're off to a good start and thank you so so much for uh for coming and setting this up and also you said you already ate like at Abu Hassan today so you're I had I had humus for breakfast today so So he's got enough energy i I I hope I'm a local now yeah that's what you guys do right yeah so amazing no you also experienced your first kind of siren so that's part of also what we do and we're safe thank God so here we are

all right cool so we got this slide thing going on we got lots of questions i'm sure a lot of people want to ask you and we have Gal here moderating for us cuz he's going to keep and make sure that we don't do anything that it's out of Versel kind of culture or something but he'll come and tackle us and yeah yeah you know we know you got security here too so we're good we're not going to do anything sketchy of course not all right so let's just uh jump straight into it I see the first question that

got a lot of up vote and I think is very relevant to this time in day of age is what is the future role of front-end development in the age of AI yeah I think it's it's no surprise i already had a a few good conversations about V0 and uh Vibe coding i think front-end development for me has always been very special because when I got started programming I tried out many

different things i tried out many different programming languages but by far the most rewarding thing was front-end development because you write some code and you immediately see the results of your code you can picture how a few lines of code whether they're HTML or I was doing PHP at the time I could picture how I could send someone a link over the internet and then they would immediately get value they would immediately get to see something so when