Vercel's Andrew Qu: Agents Are a New Kind of Software

Summary

In a Latent Space interview, Vercel Chief of Software Andrew Qu argues that agents are a fundamentally new category of software rather than just another kind of application. Vercel built its "eve" agent framework after hitting practical walls building agents for v0, concluding that agents need different primitives than web apps do — specifically for context, tools, resumability, and long-running work. Qu frames skills as "portable, on-demand knowledge" that corrects outdated model information, a