Vercel DevOps agent will soon access codebases to open fix PRs
Malte Ubl · ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl · Nov 1, 2025 · at 24:25
Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, details the upcoming roadmap for Vercel's automated DevOps agent.
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“One thing that we don't do today, but we'll do in the future is that we also give the Model X that particular agent access to your source code so that it can, first of all, figure out like, what does the error message mean? Right. And every time you can actually make a PR to just fix it, but every so often that'll be possible. And so it would then also do that.”
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