Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch on the fight to split off models from agents
THE SO WHAT
Rauch’s point on price/performance in production is the real story—teams are starting to treat models as swappable commodities and agents as the durable asset. Architect your stack so you can change models without rewriting workflows, or you’ll overpay every time the pricing curve shifts.
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