Vercel AI with Lee Robinson

Vercel provides a cloud platform to rapidly deploy web projects, and they develop the highly successful Next.js framework. The company recently made headlines when they announced v0 which is a generative AI tool to create React code from text prompts. The generated code uses open-source tools like Tailwind CSS and shadcn/ui.

Lee Robinson is the VP of Product at Vercel. He helps lead the product teams and focuses on developer experience on the platform. He joins the show to talk about Vercel, their AI SDK to easily connect frontend code with LLMs, the v0 AI tool, and more.

Sean’s been an academic, startup founder, and Googler. He has published works covering a wide range of topics from information visualization to quantum computing. Currently, Sean is Head of Marketing and Developer Relations at Skyflow and host of the podcast Partially Redacted, a podcast about privacy and security engineering. You can connect with Sean on Twitter @seanfalconer .

 

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