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Vercel's Andrew Qu on why agents are a new kind of software

L3 · BuilderTools & ProductsLatent Space· 7/3/2026

Provides practical insights for builders creating agent-based applications and frameworks, with specific technical solutions to common agent development challenges.

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Vercel's Chief of Software Andrew Qu explains how the company created its 'eve' agent framework to solve challenges they encountered while building their own AI agents. The framework addresses issues like model switching, fallbacks, and resumable runs that traditional web development tools don't handle well. Qu argues that agents represent a fundamentally new type of software with different interaction patterns and infrastructure needs compared to web applications.

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The Vercel Chief of Software explains how its agent framework, eve, was created — and why skills, sandboxes and agent-readable websites now matter.

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