Malte is CTO at Vercel, the frontend cloud provider, and creator and maintainer of Next.js, the most popular React framework.

Malte has also been Engineer Director at Google, where he led Google Search for desktop computers.

With Malte, we deep dived into how Vercel works as a team, what could developer experience look like, and the future of AI-enabled applications.

Here is what we talked about:

(01:21) Introduction

(02:17) How Vercel works

(05:01) Vercel team strategy

(06:29) The journey of a new code

(13:45) Do we need engineering managers?

(16:59) Necessary and useless roles

(22:51) Vercel' developing strategy

(33:19) The ideal development process

(37:25) Finding and avoiding bottlenecks

(40:48) Thoughts on AI shift

(47:46) Adapting software to AI interaction

(53:01) AI and open source

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