AI Fireside Chat

AI Fireside Chat
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AI Fireside Chat 🔥🤖
Real conversations with the people shaping AI’s future. Recorded live in Berlin, we dive into startup journeys, industry trends, and the human stories behind the tech.
🎧 Honest insights. Inspiring discussions.
Find us on Spotify, YouTube, and more!
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The podcast centers on topics such as startup journeys, industry trends, and the human narratives behind AI technology, featuring episodes with industry leaders like Scott Chacon discussing the impact of AI on software development and Cedric May exploring AI enterprise solutions and challenges in the German AI landscape.

AI Fireside Chat 🔥🤖
Real conversations with the people shaping AI’s future. Recorded live in Berlin, we dive into startup journeys, industry trends, and the human stories behind the tech.
🎧 Honest insights. Inspiring discussions.
Find us on Spotify, YouTube, and more!
In this episode, we sit down with Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, for an in-depth fireside chat covering the intersection of AI, developer experience (DX), and the evolving landscape of web development. Malte shares his journey from labeling floppy disks in northern Germany to leading engineering at Google Search, and now, shaping the future of developer tools at Vercel.
We dive into:
How Malte got into computer science and his early work with Smalltalk and web pages
The unique story of how he ended up at Google—and what happened on day one
Lessons from building front-end infrastructure at Google, including the birth of frameworks used in nearly every Google product today
The culture shift he experienced joining Vercel and rediscovering the joy of working with passionate teams
Behind the scenes of Vercel’s AI SDK and the V0 product—how they were built, what worked, what didn’t, and how they’re being adopted
Why Vercel chose a composite model architecture for AI, and how it enables fast iteration without training their own foundation models
The shift to evals-driven development and how it’s changing how AI-native products are built and measured
Opening Vercel's Berlin office and thoughts on the US vs. EU tech ecosystems
Malte’s candid take on the current state (and future) of Google Search, and how LLMs are reshaping information retrieval
Whether you’re building AI products, using Next.js, or just curious about the future of developer tooling, this is an unmissable conversation with one of the industry’s most forward-thinking engineering leaders.

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