I judged an AI hackathon for @vercel, @coinbase, and @arizeai interns today.
It made one thing clear:
Anyone in the camp of “we don’t need junior engineers anymore” is missing what’s happening.
This generation is the most cracked, creative, and adaptable group of builders I’ve ever seen.
They have no ego. They seek feedback. They collaborate naturally. And they’ve grown up with AI as a native part of how they learn and build.
In some ways, they’re indistinguishable from AI power users because they’ve never known a world without it.
They’re going to cook us all.
And honestly, I’m here for it.
🙇 to the interns
Shoutout to Jerry Li and the ELC community for creating one of the best spaces for engineering leaders 🙌
And huge thanks to the Vercel crew — Malte Ubl, Lindsey Simon, De'Anna Green, Will Sather, Mei Chuong, Arik Bird, John Popovich, Mondi Hemati, Kristin Sauchak for making it all happen 🖤
We launched Vercel AI Cloud at Ship earlier this year.
Last week we brought it to our first field event at ELC Annual in SF 🚀
You can just ship AI.
🧵 Key takeaways:
3️⃣ AI is top of mind but noisy. Teams want stable infra to run playbooks while staying flexible with models and tools.
☕ Also, the Vercel coffee lounge was a hit — great lattes, even better convos.
All the good vibes last night at our AI Dev Happy Hour with @posthog + @tryprofound.
✨ Loved hearing how devs are using @v0 + the AI SDK
✨ Shared how @vercel's AI Cloud powers the agentic future
✨ Building together for the agentic web
Thanks to everyone who came out. 🖤
Hosting a DevTools Happy Hour this Thursday in NYC with my friends at @tryprofound and @posthog .
Quick lightning talks:
⚡ AI + full-stack apps
⚡ GEO (LLM search)
⚡ Product analytics
+ Food and drinks
~30 spots left → https://t.co/mC1soGLtw2
We’re still in the early days of AI transformation.
v0 launched less than a year ago and gets better every week.
Proud to be on the side enabling autonomy and empowering the next billion creators 🌍 to bring their ideas to life.
Just wrapped up 4 incredible days with our @v0 by @vercel team + friends at Ai4! 🎉
Hundreds of convos, countless 🤯 moments, and one big takeaway: the future of building is here, and everyone can create. 🧵
We even built a blackjack game in 15 minutes 🃏
It reminded me of when I first learned to code small projects (e.g. Fibonacci sequence). Except now, anyone can do it instantly. The next generation will grow up in an era where creating is the default.