“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 Rauch, Founder and Chief Executive Officer. Founded and runs Vercel.
Vercel sells AI or agent tools or services, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
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Checked against the source by a first reader, then confirmed independently by a second reader who fetched the source without seeing the first reader's notes (Independent review agent (Claude Sonnet), blind second pass from passage text and citation only, no repository access, 2026-11-06).
Whisper transcript, near 47:56. Whisper hears 'for cell sandbox' for 'Vercel sandbox', and the passage elides it with an ellipsis. The rest matches exactly.
How to cite this passage
Guillermo Rauch (Vercel), “60% of Vercel Deployments Are Now Shipped by AI Agents”, Sourcery with Molly O'Shea (YouTube), 2026-10-16, at 47:56. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuorvLfAFmA Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/vercel-put-a-million-dollars-sandbox-challenge-one-person-army-of-agents-2026
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.
Context. Rauch is describing traffic through the Vercel AI Gateway, which he had introduced as the network that distributes tokens from many model providers.
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