Bito CEO Amar Goel sits down with Lindsey Simon, VP of Engineering at Vercel, to talk about how AI is reshaping developer workflows, tooling, and what impact really looks like in engineering teams.
Lindsey has spent his career at the center of modern web infrastructure. Before Vercel, he spent seven years at Google, where he was an original core team member on App Engine and a tech lead on Google Translate and web performance.
Today, he is working on AI-native developer tools and agentic workflows that rethink how developers build, debug, and ship software.
In this conversation, Lindsey shares what has actually changed since GenAI went mainstream, what has not, and why the best engineers from the pre-AI era are still the most impactful today.
Episode 13 highlights
In this episode of Peer Review, Amar and Lindsey discuss:
- The biggest workflow shift: How AI has become the collaborator developers can ask “stupid questions” to, reducing friction, fear, and onboarding time.
- Agentic debugging workflows: Why tools like dev3000 exist to eliminate copy-pasting between terminals, browsers, and AI agents.
- Zero-config as a philosophy: How Vercel’s focus on removing setup and tedium carries into AI-native tooling.
- AI and engineering impact: Why AI has not changed who the top performers are, but has increased their throughput and leverage.
- From tedium to creativity: How GenAI removes friction in the zero-to-one phase and unlocks higher creative potential.
- The future of development: A bold look at self-healing infrastructure, intent-driven tooling, and new hardware that changes how developers interact with systems.
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