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Vercel announced a new experimental systems programming language called Zero, designed specifically for AI agents rather than human developers. Zero compiles to native binaries under 10KB without LLVM, emits structured JSON error codes instead of human-readable messages, and enforces explicit side effect declarations and static memory management. While some of these features represent genuinely good language design, the author argues Zero faces a fundamental chicken-and-egg problem: agents are best at languages with massive training data (like JavaScript/TypeScript), and the developers most likely to adopt a new systems language aren't interested in optimizing for AI agents. The piece questions who Zero's actual target audience is and whether it solves a real problem.