Uncapped with Jack AltmanThe Future of Code Generation | Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel | Ep. 20
Episode Details
EPISODE INFO
- Released
- August 6, 2025
- Duration
- 1h 1m
- Channel
- Uncapped with Jack Altman
- Watch on YouTube
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EPISODE DESCRIPTION
(If you enjoyed this, please like and subscribe!) Guillermo Rauch is the founder and CEO of Vercel, creators of v0 which is one of the most popular AI app building tools that’s helping power the online presence of companies like Porsche, Under Armour and Nintendo. In May 2024, Vercel completed a $250M Series E at a $3.25B valuation and was recently named to the Forbes Cloud 100. Originally from Argentina, Guillermo became a self-taught developer at the age of ten, and has been a passionate contributor to the open-source community ever since. He is the mind behind foundational JavaScript frameworks like Next.js and Socket.io, and has built tools that power some of the internet’s most innovative products, including Midjourney, Grok, and Notion. We covered:
- Vercel’s early insights
- State of affairs for codegen
- Implications of AI for developers
- Skills of the future
- Product building taste
Timestamps: (0:00) Intro (0:28) Prequel to Vercel (4:32) Vercel’s early insights (8:13) State of affairs for codegen (17:18) Codegen evolution (19:37) Perceived vs realized productivity (27:53) Fault attribution (31:56) Internet being a house of cards (35:33) When codegen will be exceptional (40:18) What kids should be learning (47:42) Chasing the dragon vs listening to customers (50:46) The next internet (51:58) Reverse engineering success (55:50) Making it work as a dad and CEO (58:14) Taste in building product More on Guillermo: https://vercel.com/ https://x.com/rauchg More on Jack: https://www.altcap.com/ https://x.com/jaltma https://linktr.ee/uncappedpod Email: friends@uncappedpod.com
SPEAKERS
Guillermo Rauch
guestJack Altman
host
EPISODE SUMMARY
In this episode of Uncapped with Jack Altman, featuring Guillermo Rauch and Jack Altman, The Future of Code Generation | Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel | Ep. 20 explores code generation shifts bottleneck from writing code to landing outcomes Rauch traces Vercel’s origins to an obsession with iteration velocity: making deployment feel as instant as editing files locally, then scaling that into a product that ties developer experience to business outcomes.
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