Vercel and @Shopify are making agents first-class shoppers. Vercel Shop, our Next.js storefront template for Shopify, is GA. • Built on Shopify's rebuilt Hydrogen SDK • Agents can read product pages directly • MCP for product search and carts

Vercel COO @jdewitt29 warns that employees vibe-coding internal apps could accidentally expose sensitive data about every coworker: "The level of shadow IT is probably at an all-time high." "Let’s say someone on the people team vibe codes a performance application, and they don’t know to restrict that to just the people team. All of a sudden, everybody at the company can see performance data for every employee." "When folks are connecting to Salesforce, Snowflake, Linear, Slack, they’re getting these long-lived API keys, and that creates a ton of supply chain risk." "Instead, we give you a minimally scoped short-lived token so you can get into just the part that’s required for that specific app or agent, but not the whole wide world." @vercel

Vercel COO @jdewitt29 predicts companies will soon face a new question: Spend $200K on another employee or $200K on AI tokens? "Given token costs, you will start to think about what’s my mix of human capital and token capital, and am I allocating that effectively?" "Am I moving fast enough in places where human capital can be redeployed to far more interesting work? Because you can actually automate a lot more of it if you focus on your best practice from a token perspective." "As many companies are kicking off annual planning right now, that will be a core discussion. Do you want another 200K to employ a person, or would you like 200K for token spend? We’ll see where people wind up." @vercel

Vercel CEO @rauchg reveals how AI is making software disposable, allowing everyone from marketers to finance teams to build apps, use them, and throw them away: "We’re at the forefront of a hyperconvergence of job types, roles, tasks to be done, where everything is computer. Everyone is agentic engineer." "You have people in marketing building software and deploying it. You have people in finance. It might just be that your agent cooks up a report. It might be a micro app that is ephemeral. It might be something you build just for yourself." "I went to the race in Vegas. They just put it all up for a weekend. And then they tore it down. This is the future of software. We build software, it gets the job done, we need to be okay with throwing it away." @vercel

Vercel CEO @rauchg predicts the future of the economy: AI agents buying products, creating ungodly amounts of software, and reshaping the IPO market. "Fleets of agents automating our work is a massive one. More software, just vast, ungodly amounts of software being created." "People come to me as like, we’ve never seen anything like this. There’s no comparable today in the IPO market. The math doesn’t math. And I actually think we’re still in day one of this new normal." "The other big bet is agentic commerce, the agentic web. The new protocols that are gonna take over, MCP, super bullish. Markdown, the internet that the agents can consume. CLIs. Whatever is good for the agents, they’re gonna eat it all up." "I’ll even make another prediction. We’re marketing to humans right now, but most of our growth is coming because the agents are coming. They’re buying domain names. They’re buying from the Marketplace." "If I were to summarize my predictions, the future of the economy is agents." @vercel

Vercel CEO @rauchg reveals why the hardest part of building an agent is not writing the code, it’s identity, a wallet, and compute that doesn’t die: "The hardest part about building an agent, believe it or not, is not actually writing the code for the agent. Getting them the access, the identity, the wallet, these are the harder parts." "The compute of the traditional cloud infrastructure was not really designed for this agent era. It was short-lived compute." "Vercel Daemons, this primitive for backend compute so that something can run for as long as it wants and respond to events. It’s like an agent that lives forever." "Drives. As these agents pick up new work, they need a workspace. Think of it as like the Dropbox for agents." @vercel

Vercel CEO @rauchg predicts cybersecurity will be the most important trend in agents over the next 5 years: "You can’t just be running these agents on your local computer. The first step of agents was, okay, run Claude Code on your computer. OpenClaw on your Mac Mini that has access to everything." "Now it’s about putting them in the cloud, governing them, putting them in their box. Literally in their sandbox. Security’s gonna be the name of the game." "What is your bet for one of the most important trends in the next five years when it comes to agents? It’s gonna be cybersecurity. Keeping the agents inside the box, especially as they continue to get smarter." "Put them to work on improving the security posture of your company. Try to ask the agent, hey, what’s missing here?" @vercel