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I'm joining Cursor to teach the future of coding! There are millions of developers learning how to use AI and they need pragmatic advice: 1. We need to teach new developers strong foundations, so they know what to learn, and how to solve issues when debugging. 2. We need to teach experienced developers how AI can automate the tedious parts of coding, or save them time reading docs and fixing bugs. 3. We need to help developers become even more competent. AI may end up writing most of your code, but you have to review, understand, and maintain that software. This is why some experienced devs are having a great time with AI. They can ask for a pattern like "add an exponential backoff" instead of “make it more robust to errors” which may or may not work. I want to help developers become an order of magnitude more productive, and help more people contribute to building software. This is going to take a *lot* of education and retraining. So expect more videos soon, and if you have ideas for what I should teach, let me know!

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After 5 years, I just finished my last week at Vercel 🥲 What a ride. I'm grateful for this community and proud to have helped people learn to code with React/Next. Many tweets sent and friends made. I guess I don't have to wear all black now!? Gotta switch up my wardrobe...

Introducing Cursor Learn! My first course is a six-part video series on AI foundations. It's designed for beginners to learn concepts like tokens, context, and agents. If you prefer to read, there's quizzes + AI models to try out. You can watch it in ~1 hour, 100% free!

Vercel Cron Jobs. Next week.

📣 The Next.js router is getting a major upgrade! ◆ Nested routes / layouts ◆ Client and server routing ◆ React 18 features – startTransition, Suspense ◆ Designed for Server Components ◆ 100% incrementally adoptable 🤯 Expect an RFC very soon 👀

📹 Self-Hosting Next.js Learn how to deploy Next.js, Postgres, and Nginx to a $4 VPS with Docker. I'll explain how to use and configure Next.js features like image optimization, caching & ISR, streaming, middleware, server components, and more. Demo app is open source!

Life update... I'm a dad! Our first daughter 🌸

handyarrows​.com is wonderful. Hand-drawn arrows you can copy as SVGs or React component.

So I gave the same task to Codex, Jules, and Devin Let's see what these AI Agents are all about... Do they actually work?

"My favorite enterprise AI service is Cursor [...] Every one of our engineers, 100%, is now assisted by AI coders and our productivity has gone up incredibly."

After 5 years, I just finished my last week at Vercel 🥲 What a ride. I'm grateful for this community and proud to have helped people learn to code with React/Next. Many tweets sent and friends made. I guess I don't have to wear all black now!? Gotta switch up my wardrobe...

I'm joining Cursor to teach the future of coding! There are millions of developers learning how to use AI and they need pragmatic advice: 1. We need to teach new developers strong foundations, so they know what to learn, and how to solve issues when debugging. 2. We need to teach experienced developers how AI can automate the tedious parts of coding, or save them time reading docs and fixing bugs. 3. We need to help developers become even more competent. AI may end up writing most of your code, but you have to review, understand, and maintain that software. This is why some experienced devs are having a great time with AI. They can ask for a pattern like "add an exponential backoff" instead of “make it more robust to errors” which may or may not work. I want to help developers become an order of magnitude more productive, and help more people contribute to building software. This is going to take a *lot* of education and retraining. So expect more videos soon, and if you have ideas for what I should teach, let me know!

What do you want to see us ship/fix in Cursor?

Life update... I'm a dad! Our first daughter 🌸

SF, London, Amsterdam, Tokyo, and NYC so far this year. Where should we do a Vercel meetup next?

What are you most proud of that you've built or worked on? (Go ahead, please hype yourself up)

We’re releasing one of the most requested Next.js features this week. What do you think it is? 👀

Vibe coding has mostly replaced no code tools. Now the question is... does it replace the rest of software engineering? If you read X, you would think the answer is yes. But I doubt it.

I don't know the right way to talk about burnout, but here we go. Helping build a developer community was not something I ever planned on doing. It kind of just... happened. And it's wonderful. It's a privilege to be part of a community that cares. To share any feedback, good or bad, requires non-zero energy. You could have done a million other things with your day, but you chose to help make a product I work on better. So, for that I'm really grateful. The way people talk online can really affect your mental state. And it's only online, developers are always so nice in person (even when you disagree). You might be thinking: just log off brah, delete the X app. And you're right, I could. But it's kind of part of the job. Hard to build an open source community if you don't respond to people on GitHub, right? It's impossible to build a great product if you're not comfortable receiving negative feedback. So, I try to assume good intent from everyone, stay positive and optimistic, and just keep building. When you spend years building something (a community, an open source project), it's hard not to let issues with the product weigh on you. I have a running list of all the things I want to improve with Next.js and Vercel — and working hard to try to do as many as I can. But sometimes the attacks aren't about the product. They're personal. And that... really sucks. It feels like a disservice to anyone who wants to build an open source community, or share things online, for me to not talk more openly about this. So I'm trying. I've went through phases of "community burnout" over the past four years, and have mostly managed to stay optimistic. I'm sure my wife is sick of me talking about Next.js 🤣 But yeah, I'm a little burnt out. The only thing you can really do is time take to reset. Luckily, I have some time off coming up soon. Looking forward to that. So yeah, if you're in this boat, my DMs are open if you want to talk about it.

GM. I just deployed Next.js, Postgres, and Nginx to a $4 VPS. Time for a tutorial?

If there was a Next.js hackathon... Which tools would you want credits from to help build your app? Hypothetically, of course 👀

Vercel Cron Jobs. Next week.