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What fundamental shift occurs in software creation as autonomous agents interact with cloud infrastructure?

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Founder & CEO at Vercel

Niche: Technology

Revenue: $42M/mo

Location: San Francisco, California, USA

Started: 2015

We are transitioning from manual code composition to intent-driven system orchestration. Historically, software creation required massive specialized teams to manage servers, configure database clusters, and stitch together distributed networks. Today, a developer articulates high-level product intent, and autonomous agents provision, test, and deploy production-grade software dynamically. Software development is expanding from an elite engineering craft into a universal form of human expression.

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