Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on taste, layout shift and 'no random acts of AI'
soleio · x · 2026-10-25
The First of Kind podcast Season 3 debut with Vercel founder/CEO Guillermo Rauch (47 min) is fast becoming the show's most-listened episode. Highlights: taught himself English to learn programming in Argentina before building Socket.io; designs CLIs in Sketch before writing code; argues layout shift erodes trust; Vercel commits no 'random acts of AI'; discusses whether agents can have taste, software factories and agent customers; sees himself as chief designer, not just CEO.
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