Guillermo Rauch: 'The Boss of 2026 Won't Manage People — They'll Manage AI Agents'

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch predicts the defining corporate role of 2026 will be the 'agent manager' — a human who orchestrates fleets of AI agents rather than teams of people. This comes after v0 hit 3M users and Vercel's customer Durable demonstrated 360B tokens/year with just 6 engineers. Rauch has been consistent: from 'everyone's an engineer now' to JSON-render's generative UI framework, the Vercel thesis is that the bottleneck shifts from writing code to managing the systems that write code. The agent manager framing makes that explicit.