Rhys is a software engineer at Vercel with a focus on making fast incredible products people love. Notable projects include:
- Building the frontend for Vercel Domains, the fastest domains search in the world
- Answer Overflow a Next.js site & Discord bot that creates web pages from Discord threads
- Shiptalkers a viral app for comparing the number of tweets a person has sent to their GitHub commits
When he’s not working you can find him posting memes most of the time on Twitter.
In this talk, Rhys Sullivan covers how he was able to fully rewrite his application over the course of 2 weeks to a new architecture using AI that unlocked being able to ship quality software faster. It goes over setting up development environments for AI, EffectTS, best practices for debugging production and a starter template you can use for your own applications.