Andrew Qu, Chief of Software at Vercel, explains how the company evolved from web development tooling to building eve, its own agent framework. The framework emerged from internal pain points discovered while building v0, Vercel's vibe-coding product — including model switching, fallbacks, and resumability. Qu argues agents are a genuinely new category of software, not just another app type, requiring different primitives for context, tools, and long-running work. He discusses skills as portable, on-demand knowledge to correct outdated model information, the rise of agent-readable websites (Vercel already serves Markdown to detected bots), and the future of multiplayer agent development for teams. Vercel itself is becoming an agent platform, with agents embedded in its website, Slack, and dashboard.
