How Vercel teaches AI coding agents product design reasoning

Summary

Vercel, an agent-native team, explores the challenge of teaching AI coding agents product design — not just generating working UI, but understanding the reasoning behind design decisions. The article explains how Vercel treats accepted product decisions like code, using agent skills, lint rules, Vercel Agent code reviews, evals, and a human-led update loop to encode design context that lives outside the codebase (design reviews, PR comments, Slack threads). The core insight is that agents can replicate patterns but cannot understand why those patterns exist, so Vercel builds systems to bridge that gap.

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