Vercel Articles

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• Vercel BotID In 2026: How The Invisible CAPTCHA Actually Works, And Where It Earns Its Place In My Stack 5/18/2026 Vercel BotID went GA in mid-2025 and quietly replaced the visible CAPTCHA on a lot of indie SaaS sites in 2026. The promise is real: invisible bot detection that catches headless Playwright sessions without making your real users squint at fire hydrants. The price is real too. Here is what BotID actually does under the hood, the Basic versus Deep Analysis tradeoff, the route patterns I protect with it, and the day a single AI scraper convinced me to wire it in front of an endpoint I thought was already safe.
• Vercel Zero: The Programming Language Built So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, And Ship Native Code 5/18/2026 Vercel Labs just dropped a new systems language called Zero whose compiler speaks JSON, whose effects live in your function signatures, and whose binaries weigh less than ten kilobytes. The pitch is simple: a language where an AI agent can read a compiler error, ask for a typed fix, and ship a native program without a human in the loop. Here is what Zero actually is, what it is not, and whether the agent-first compiler is a clever bet or a Vercel side project you can safely ignore.