Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast ⚡ Inside GitHub’s AI Revolution: Jared Palmer Reveals Agent HQ & The Future of Coding Agents
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Nov 10, 2025 
Jared Palmer, a senior engineering leader at GitHub and former AI pioneer at Vercel, shares insights into the future of coding agents. He elaborates on the launch of Agent HQ, a collaborative hub aimed at integrating AI in developer workflows. Palmer discusses how focused architectures like Next.js led to breakthroughs with coding agents, and why seamless AI is essential for modern developers. He also presents challenges in scaling agent-based workflows and explores the potential of coding agents beyond programming, including automating everyday tasks.
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Focused Constraint Fueled V0's Success
- Jared Palmer built V0 at Vercel focused on Next.js which began as an AI playground and evolved into AISDK.
- That tight framework constraint accelerated rapid prototyping and product-market fit for frontend coding agents.
Prompt-To-UI Was Born From Limits
- V0's prompt-to-UI idea emerged from early model limits and creative use of completions before tool calls existed.
- Constraining to Next.js plus a UI library let the team deliver high-quality, specialized agent experiences.
Enable Model Choice And Third-Party Harnesses
- Offer model choice and support third-party harnesses instead of locking users to one branded model.
- Combine Copilot with external agent frameworks in Agent HQ to give developers flexibility and performance options.