
Why AI Agents Can't Deploy to Vercel (And How We Fixed It)
The Irony Your AI agent just built you a full-stack app. It wrote the frontend, the API, the database schema, the Docker config. Everything works locally. You ask it to "put this online" and... nothing. Welcome to the deployment gap. What Agents Actually Face Here's what happens when you ask an AI agent to deploy to any major hosting platform: 1. Signup Forms Agent: "I'd like to deploy my site." Platform: "Please enter your email." Agent: "..." Agent: "I don't have fingers." Every major platform requires email verification, account creation, OAuth flows, or credit card input. An AI agent can't navigate a signup form. It has no hands, no phone for 2FA, no browser session. 2. Dashboard UIs After signup (somehow), agents face dashboards designed for humans: Click "New Project" Select framework from dropdown Connect GitHub repo Configure build settings Click "Deploy" None of these are API calls. They're clicks. In a browser. 3. Credit Card Requirements Most platforms want a credit card bef
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