Episode 03|05/28/26
Guillermo Rauch
The Art of Prompting
Creation is replacing the more bespoke ways we used to communicate. Prompting well is an art, and it starts with not over-completing the idea yourself.
The Guest
Guillermo RauchCEO & Founder, Vercel
CEO & Founder at Vercel. Building the infrastructure for the modern web.
The Stack Monitor — 9 tools
Hover for notesHacker Mentality
1- Vercel's internal agent, becoming vI. Every Monday it dumps platform metrics, trends, anomalies.— GuillermoDd0 (vI)
The G System
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Raycast AIHow I talk to apps that aren't AI-native yet. Most of the computer from one place.— Guillermo
GhosttyThe terminal. Email, Slack via MCP — I access most things from the CLI.— Guillermo
Claude CodeI work with agents the way I work with junior engineers. I know when something is doable.— Guillermo
v0Whenever I hear us talking, I think we should be v0ing.— Guillermo
Nano BananaCreation is replacing description. Image gen sits next to v0 in the new communication layer.— Guillermo
Stack in Action
1- v0Vercel's docs, redesigned in two prompts. I'd rather do this than dump unstructured feedback in Slack.— Guillermo
In Their Words
“I invited the agent to augment my idea, which is something I also recommend. A little bit of an ego death — don't try to overly complete the idea, because you're not that smart.”
“Sometimes I found success by saying, agent, let's both take a deep breath. Let's reset the approach altogether.”
“I think creation really replaces a lot of the more bespoke ways that we used to communicate.”