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Prediction Not checkable as stated
Future app platforms must extract auth and authorization completely
“Auth cannot be part of the app, because they're not going to get that right, right? So, Auth has to be extracted from the app. In fact, which data you can see, they also cannot be under control of the app, because again, you're going to get it wrong, right? So…”
Malte Ubl Nov 1, 2025 ▶ 40:25 ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
Assertion Contradicted
Ubl: Cognition and Cursor shipped RL fine-tunes of open-source models
“Just yesterday, I think we saw both Cognition, congrats, SWIX, and Cursor to ship RL fine tunes of unnamed open source models.”
Malte Ubl Dec 7, 2025 ▶ 5:22 The Great Evals Debate — Ankur Goyal & Malte Ubl
Assertion Supported
Vercel paused workflows incur zero compute cost indefinitely
“No, it literally does not cost anything. So yeah, you can run compute for infinite amount of time. You can then also, whenever, like, one of these steps fails, automatically retry them.”
Malte Ubl Nov 1, 2025 ▶ 5:18 ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
Assertion Supported
Vercel AI SDK v6 stabilizes direct agent abstractions
“What it does introduce as a stable feature, because it's already as kind of experimental in, in AISDK five is a direct agent abstraction, which so far wasn't there, right? People would build agents with AISDK, but they would have to do it in Whitmore Baybones …”
Malte Ubl Nov 1, 2025 ▶ 10:16 ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Vercel AI SDK was extracted from v0 before re-integrating it
“Like that, like AISDK was extracted from B-Zero and then we build it and we kind of diverged a little bit and then we took on the substantial work to bring back VZero actually fully hosted on ISDK”
Malte Ubl Nov 1, 2025 ▶ 17:13 ⚡️ Ship AI recap: Agents, Workflows, and Python — w/ Vercel CTO Malte Ubl
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