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Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software
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What happened
An interview with Vercel's Chief of Software, Andrew Qu, discussing 'eve' (Vercel's agent framework) and 'skills.sh'. He explains how building v0 forced them to solve practical agent pain points like model/provider switching, adding fallbacks, and making runs resumable. Qu argues that agents are a fundamentally new kind of software requiring new primitives.
Why it matters
Vercel's transition toward agent primitives signals how web infrastructure is adapting to support stateful, long-running agentic workflows.
The take
Vercel's insights are highly practical because they are born out of scaling v0. The focus on 'resumable runs' and 'fallbacks' highlights the shift from stateless LLM calls to stateful, robust agent execution. This is a strong signal that the next wave of web development frameworks will treat agents as first-class citizens.
Do this
Check out Vercel's agent framework 'eve' and the 'skills.sh' registry to see how they handle tool discovery and resumable execution.
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