Malte Ubl (CTO of Vercel) on AI-Driven DX, Google Search, and the Future of Web Dev with V0

In this episode, we sit down with Malte Ubl, CTO of Vercel, for an in-depth fireside chat covering the intersection of AI, developer experience (DX), and the evolving landscape of web development. Malte shares his journey from labeling floppy disks in northern Germany to leading engineering at Google Search, and now, shaping the future of developer tools at Vercel.We dive into:How Malte got into computer science and his early work with Smalltalk and web pagesThe unique story of how he ended up at Google—and what happened on day oneLessons from building front-end infrastructure at Google, including the birth of frameworks used in nearly every Google product todayThe culture shift he experienced joining Vercel and rediscovering the joy of working with passionate teamsBehind the scenes of Vercel’s AI SDK and the V0 product—how they were built, what worked, what didn’t, and how they’re being adoptedWhy Vercel chose a composite model architecture for AI, and how it enables fast iteration without training their own foundation modelsThe shift to evals-driven development and how it’s changing how AI-native products are built and measuredOpening Vercel's Berlin office and thoughts on the US vs. EU tech ecosystemsMalte’s candid take on the current state (and future) of Google Search, and how LLMs are reshaping information retrievalWhether you’re building AI products, using Next.js, or just curious about the future of developer tooling, this is an unmissable conversation with one of the industry’s most forward-thinking engineering leaders.