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Hidden Palestine on Instagram: "Vercel, a cloud platform for web apps, had hundreds of developers migrate off its platform overnight after CEO Guillermo Rauch (@rauchg__) posted a photo with Israeli PM Netanyahu on Sept 29, 2025, praising their discussions on AI and expressing optimism for Israel. “Enjoyed my discussion with PM Netanyahu on how AI education and literacy will keep our free societies ahead,” Rauch wrote, while expressing hope for “peace, safety, and greatness for Israel and its neighbors.” The post quickly racked up nearly five million views. Shortly after, a pattern emerged in online forums and private engineering groups: hundreds of developers were leaving Vercel. Not loudly, not with open letters or coordinated campaigns, but by doing the gritty technical work—reconfiguring deployments, moving DNS records, rewriting files line by line."
www.instagram.comThe sudden departure of hundreds of developers from Vercel has left many wondering what led to this exodus. We examine the CEO's post that sparked the event and the technical efforts that ensued.
Is it still fashionable to claim you were always an AI company, and just developed <unrelated product> to build the capital to achieve your AI goals?
In any case, AI is (and always was) a meaningless buzz word. Worse, it’s a pop-culture adjacent buzz word.