Fireside Chat - Ship 26 NYC

The next 10 billion knowledge workers coming online aren't humans. They're agents, and they're blind: they don't see buttons, they want semantics, APIs, and CLIs. Recorded live at Vercel Ship 2026 in New York City, Guillermo Rauch closes the day with Ivan Zhao (Co-Founder and CEO, Notion) on computing history, religious experiences with language models, and refounding Notion for the agent era. CHAPTERS 0:00 New York has a real summer 0:59 From informatics olympiads to Notion 2:22 Engelbart, Alan Kay, and the Mother of All Demos 5:18 Rebuilding on React 6:55 Semantics over rainbow colors 8:57 Religious experience #1: GPT-4 in a hotel room 13:07 Religious experience #2: the Claude Opus Christmas 16:25 Designing for agents: APIs first, UI last 20:45 The Notion developer platform and Switzerland of AI 27:31 Lightning round: Refounding LINKS Notion → https://www.notion.com Notion for developers → https://developers.notion.com Ship 2026 recap → https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-ship-2... Start building → https://vercel.com FOLLOW VERCEL X → https://x.com/vercel LinkedIn →   / vercel   GitHub → https://github.com/vercel #Vercel #VercelShip #Notion #AIAgents #IvanZhao #DesignForAgents

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Build an Agent with Eve: The Open Agent Framework - Ship 26 NYC Workshop

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Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Why Coding Is Solved, and What Comes Next

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The Future of AI Agents with Andrew Ng | Interrupt 26

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Kubernetes and retiring at the top with Kelsey Hightower

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Spatial AI and World Models Toward General Physical Intelligence

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Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO)

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The Most Important Conversation in AI Right Now

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Andrej Karpathy: From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering w/ Stephanie Zhan

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No Boss, No Money: The Raw Reality of China’s Gen-Z Freelancers

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Last Lecture Series: “How to Win Without Crushing Your Soul” - Graham Weaver

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CTO panel: Internal apps and agents in production - Ship 26 NYC

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Leading in the Age of AI: A Conversation with NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang | Global Conference 2026

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"The engineer of the future is the person who is able to choose what is worth doing." — Addy Osmani

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Claude Managed Agents on Vercel's Agentic Infrastructure - Ship 26 NYC

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Automating 90% of support tickets: How we built Vercel's support agent - Ship 26 NYC

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Qualcomm CEO Cristiano Amon on the Future of AI, China, and More