Jared Palmer traces his journey from creating AI-powered frontend tools at Vercel to leading GitHub’s Agent HQ initiative, highlighting how focused agents like v0 achieved rapid success by turning prompts into Next.js UIs. He discusses the shift from chat-based interfaces to deeply integrated coding agents that automate tasks within native environments like VS Code. The conversation explores dev containers, sandboxing, and SDKs as key enablers of secure, scalable agent workflows. Measuring performance through error-free session metrics is critical for improving reliability, especially in multi-turn interactions. Data infrastructure remains a challenge, but solutions like OpenRouter offer promise. Finally, Palmer addresses Git workflow complexities in large organizations, noting GitHub’s ongoing efforts to adopt stack-based development features inspired by systems like Facebook’s Mercurial setup—marking a strategic shift in how code collaboration will scale in the future.