Exiting the phase of my career where I realize everything is a compiler problem and entering the phase where I realize everything is a dependency management problem.
I've been enjoying using pi quite a bit. but my god the project website grates at my soul. Surely even a lobotomized version of GPT-2 could vibecode something better than this mess.
Vercel Agent now works in @SlackHQ Code, with your app's full production context and zero setup.
▪︎ Connect secrets, env vars, commands, repos
▪︎ Steer the agent as a team
▪︎ Review diffs and ship directly in code channels
vercel.com/changelog/verc…
This is why we didn't build anything special for Vercel Agent to talk to Vercel APIs. When you start a new chat in the dashboard, it's literally just a sandbox + Vercel CLI + stock Vercel CLI skills.
This week we read research from a team of academics that ran a software task across 7 agents and 5 models.
They found that in domains with a mature CLI ecosystem, agents without MCP baked in completed the task just as reliably and were 5-28x cheaper.
Full arXiv paper below
