Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch says he hasn’t run a product review meeting in months — his own agent runs them, and he only shows up after it already failed.

TL;DR: Vercel's CEO hasn't sat through a product review meeting in months. Nobody at the company seems to mind.

Rauch's own rule is blunt: if he DMs you, his agent already tried and failed first.

That's not a policy statement, it's a description of a threshold that already runs by default — human contact only on failure.

Google Cloud published almost the identical governance advice this past week: build automatic escalation points so an agent can act on its own, and only loop in a human once it genuinely can't.

What Rauch describes as his own personal habit, enterprise security teams are now writing down as standard policy.

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I remember when the ordering kiosks were first introduced into our local McDonalds' outlets, no one bother to use it.

It's so strange. So impersonal.

It was just like a large smartphone-screen-like monitor standing in the middle of the space. We'd just walked past it straight to the counter, where there's still a friendly face to greet us and take our orders.

But gradually over time, lines were formed behind the kiosks – because they can't stand the long queue behind the counter.

Then more kiosks are introduced.

Then the counter registers were reduced – to eventually just one left.

It's true – what can be automated, WILL be automated.

What's left are the just the food-preppers and the cleaning staffs.

Jobs, I guess are still safe, for the time being – until the robots come and take over.

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The people actually getting replaced right now aren't doing the hard, technical work.

They're doing the coordination work nobody ever wrote a proper job description for — the syncing, the pestering, the "let me check on that."

And the ones who come out ahead aren't the ones fighting to keep that role.

They're the ones who go design whatever replaces it.

Rauch has actually said a version of this before. Back in June, he laid out how the engineering role itself splits into who executes and who verifies — months before this same review-session admission. Same person, same mechanism, earlier warning.

What's the version of this happening in your own job right now — the meeting that quietly stopped needing you in the room?

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