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Guillermo Rauch urges using production traces to guide coding agents

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch says developers should capture production traces and optimize software based on real user behavior.

He says engineers should instrument the system and collect data before writing code, and that an agent can be asked to analyze those traces today.

Rauch points to Vercel Tracing, which he says is now generally available on all plans and on by default for new Next.js 16.5 projects.

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Guillermo Rauch argues production traces should guide coding agents
AIVercel CEO Guillermo Rauch says developers should capture production traces and optimize software based on real user behavior. He says engineers should instrument the system and collect data before writing code, and that an agent can be asked to analyze those traces today. He points to Vercel Tracing, now generally available on all plans and on by default for new Next.js 16.5 projects.

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