Vercel's Andrew Qu: agents are a new class of software, and eve is the framework for them
Vercel Chief of Software Andrew Qu argues agents are a new class of software — less predictable than web apps, needing their own primitives for context, tools, and resumability — and points to eve, the framework Vercel distilled from building its v0 agent. It is a perspective interview, not a release, but two moves are concrete for developers: eve deployed to Vercel ships built-in observability and evaluations, and Vercel now detects agent requests and serves Markdown instead of browser HTML.
Source: latent.space ↗
Agents are a new type of software. They are not as predictable as web applications.
Andrew Qu, Chief of Software, Vercel
Why this matters
- → Agents need different infrastructure primitives than web apps—context, tools, resumability.
- → Vercel detecting agent requests and serving Markdown instead of HTML signals web architecture shift.
- → Skills solve the real problem of outdated model knowledge in production systems.
Agents reshape infrastructure