Guillermo Rauch's Thesis: The Real Fight Is Splitting Models From Agents, and Production Is Where Agents Are Now Dying

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Rauch told TechCrunch the industry has moved past prototyping AI agents into confronting production challenges, and identified the two dominant use cases as coding agents and internal corporate agents — not consumer-facing ones. His structural argument is that models and agents should be decoupled layers, which is why Vercel's bet is on the runtime and sandbox rather than the weights. Notable that a hosting CEO with visibility into what actually deploys is calling internal automation the second pillar; that contradicts the consumer-agent narrative most labs are marketing.