The New Application Layer
summary
Argues that AI engineering replaces web development as the mainstream craft and gives concrete artifacts: a chat SDK for hooking agents to chats and just bash, a TypeScript bash interpreter used as a fast sandbox. Reports >60% of vercel.com page views coming from agents and an internal support agent with a 90% deflection rate that improves job satisfaction. Demonstrates contact-sales and abuse-report agents that compress research and routing, insists on separate harness vs runtime and cites an AI SDK doing over 10 million dollars a week.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:51The era of AI engineering
- 2:23Software economics and agents
- 6:47Practical agent archetypes
- 12:36Infrastructure for agents
- 16:00The future of innovation
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