Guillermo Rauch CNBC: Vercel February Was Record Month Driven by Claude Code; North Korean Operatives Ran Fake AI Job Interviews on Platform
In his CNBC Fortt Knox interview, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch reported February as a record growth month, attributing the surge specifically to AI coding agents like Claude Code generating and deploying production software directly to Vercel infrastructure — with v0 now at 4 million active users building real software, not prototypes. Rauch also disclosed that Vercel shut down a network of North Korean operatives using the platform to conduct fake AI-assisted job interviews targeting engineers, making Vercel the first major AI hosting platform to confirm active DPRK exploitation of AI coding infrastructure for social engineering. The juxtaposition of record growth and state-actor abuse on the same platform captures the dual reality of mainstream AI adoption.
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