Guillermo Rauch: Vercel CEO on how v0 hit 3,200 PRs merged per day (and lets anyone ship)

I'll say one thing about VIP coding. It's really easy to go from zero to one. I think we've all seen the demos of I prom thing and it's cool. I think what's harder is to iterate on a project at scale and to deploy changes safely. Every marketer ever sells to change this page at some point and the old way was one of two ways. One is what I called you had to petition to the government. You had to go to engineers and say, "Engineers, can you please add a logo over here or whatnot or pray that the CMS was perfectly wired up for any

ambition or dream or idea you had. So now they can just open this page in VZ and prompt anything that they want. >> It reduces the friction of getting something live really, really low. the humiliation ritual of prioritization goes away and you can actually focus your time on defending the merits of an idea on the actual idea as opposed to the hypothesis of the idea that then has to be implemented. And so I think it changes the speed of companies in a really significant way.

So this is truly a first time vibe podcast that we're doing together and I wanted to introduce myself. I'm Claire Vo. of a product leader and obsessed with AI and I have a podcast, How I AI, where I teach people how to build better with all these new tools, including ones that we're going to see today. And I'm really excited to have you here, G. First, we're just going to get to the the thing that everybody's wondering about. What is your most favorite

feature that you released this week on VZero? >> Well, I'll tell you the hottest thing in AI today is skills. Everyone is excited about the fact that we can now augment agents and AI applications and agentic engineering with skills like skills that the model doesn't yet have. And so we launched skills.sh and the beautiful thing about what we'll show you today is that Vzero can seriously go from prototype all the way

to production. So we're able to conceive changes to things like skills.sh. I'm going to show you really quickly. Skills.sh SH is a new you can think of it as like npm. It's a hub an open ecosystem of skills and it's pretty dramatic what's happening to this site. So you can see that we now have 34,000 skills submitted by the community and this website has gone viral all over the internet. It's hosted on Verscell but the most exciting part to me is that it

was conceived in Bzero. >> I have a quick question for the audience. How many of you have installed a skill in the last week? >> Oh wow. >> Okay. A lot of people >> skill build. >> Um, how many of you have the top three installed? >> Actually, top >> it's very heavy at the top. Right. It's like >> these are ripping. >> Oh, no. I have top seven. Okay. Yeah, I have the top seven installed right now. Um, this is a really great resource. So, for folks that are maybe watching this later or haven't been familiar with

skills, skills is now this standard that a lot of these agentic frameworks are using. to help you repurpose and reuse best practices, step-by-step flows. And so, for example, I use this Remotion best practices one um to let me import components and regularly create videos really, really quickly. And I would not have been able to do this without the expertise that's been packaged in these best practices that were installed with one line um using skills.sh. I think

it's also worth noting maybe to peel the covers of how Versel builds products. >> Yep. >> Skills out a stage was a thing that was just conceived at the moment of inspiration. We started prompting, hey, wouldn't it be cool >> if this thing took shape? >> Would we discussed for example what it should look like? We we've been calling this style terminal core because it looks a little bit like this is my contribution to the project. I was like, hey, wouldn't it be cool if we make the top of the website look like a terminal? And so the the the process itself of