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So we did this example with Mercedes. So when we started partnering with them, they asked us, how can you make our F1 team better? And I being sort of, you know, performance maniac, I said, well, we can make your website much faster because when people go to … buy your merch or want to get the latest results from the race or whatever, I want to make you faster, I want to make you agentic. And so that process would have taken quite a bit of time. But the first iteration of the migration of their old stack to the new one actually took five minutes. We used an agent to rewrite the code from the old platform to the new one. Five minutes. … I was like, this used to take months.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch is giving an example of a customer migration done by an agent.

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 80:35. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

  • 5 minutes migration duration, first iteration of the Mercedes F1 team website migration

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools

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Guillermo Rauch, Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Founded and runs Vercel.

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Whisper transcript, near 80:35. The ellipses cover 'people go to' / 'buy your merch' joins and the 'When I saw the agent's result,' lead-in. The rest is exact.

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Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), “60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents”, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), 2026-10-16, at 80:35. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuorvLfAFmA Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/vercel-mercedes-first-iteration-migration-took-five-minutes-agent-rewrote-code-2026

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It took us about 10 years to get to a billion deployments. Deployment is one of my favorite words. Every time you ship a change to your app, that's a deployment. And then in the next 10 months, the 10 months since then, until now, we've added another 1.5 billion deployments. So what took us 10 years, we've not sort of passed in just a few months.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch is explaining what he means by the exponential, before he says why shipping has sped up.

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 8:45. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

  • 1 billion deployments deployments cumulative, first 10 years of Vercel
  • 1.5 billion deployments deployments added, the 10 months before the interview

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools Passage page

So we started out the year with 3% of deployments on … we're coming from coding agents. Now 60% are agentic.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch answers the host's question about how many companies still read the code their coding agents write, and is describing deployments on the Vercel platform.

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 14:52. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

  • 3% agent deployment share, start of 2026
  • 60% agent deployment share, as of the interview, published 2026-10-16

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools Passage page

But what's happened is that in the beginning of the year … most of the traffic was going to proprietary models. So OpenAI, Gemini, XAI, et cetera. And now the situation is almost entirely flipped. 80% of tokens in our network … is open models.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch is describing traffic through the Vercel AI Gateway, which he had introduced as the network that distributes tokens from many model providers.

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 54:48. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

  • 80% open model token share, as of the interview, published 2026-10-16

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools Passage page

the way that we work at Vercel is I can go into my agent that we deploy on Slack … Hey, tell me about Molly and how frequently she deploys on Vercel … I'm gonna have a meeting with her and I'm her account executive. And give me a quick report on some of the problems that she's reported. So I never actually went to Salesforce. I just went to the agent and the agent went to Salesforce.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch is describing how Vercel's own staff use an agent, using the host as the example account.

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 26:48. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools Passage page

And so what we're helping companies figure out is one, how do you build agents so that you can streamline your operations? Almost everything we do at Vercel, we do with agents.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch follows an example of a Slack agent that reads Salesforce for Vercel's account executives.

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 27:13. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools Passage page

To get ahead of this problem, we put a million dollars towards a sandbox challenge. We told the world … we believe is one of the most secure sandboxes, if not the most secure sandbox in the world, and to strengthen it further, we want you to poke holes. And we invited, I mean, you could imagine this, right? We invited the entire world to attack us. Only one person with like an army of agents was able to make progress. And we're basically processing his contribution now and we're sharing it with industry peers.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch is talking about securing code and sandboxes against attackers who use coding agents.

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 47:56. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

  • $1 million sandbox challenge prize, 2026

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools Passage page

Now, you asked specifically, do I write the code? I read … and what this says, I'm doing more and more and more, is asking the AI to explain back what it did to me, which is a little bit of the job I've compared it to being an engineering manager.

Guillermo RauchFounder and CEO of Vercel · Executive, Vercel

Context. Rauch answers the host's question 'Are you still coding?'

Interview: 60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), October 16, 2026, at 12:17. Reported by Molly O'Shea.

Checked against the source [ Grade C ] Said in the last year Vercel: $600 million revenue, annualized, as of 2026-10 Sells AI tools Passage page

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