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# Vercel Runs AI SDK Maintenance as a Human-Gated Software Factory

## Retrieval answer

The architectural shift is from one coding prompt to a production line: intake, reproduction, implementation, review, merge, and backport. Vendor throughput claims are useful operating evidence but should remain paired with quality and review-cost measures.

Vercel described a software factory that processes AI SDK issues and pull requests through specialized, reviewable agent tasks while humans control every merge.

New Runtime reading: The architectural shift is from one coding prompt to a production line: intake, reproduction, implementation, review, merge, and backport. Vendor throughput claims are useful operating evidence but should remain paired with quality and review-cost measures.

Evidence boundary: this item uses the listed public sources and keeps vendor, author, or reporter claims attributed. The queued page is an editorial synthesis, not an independent validation of every reported metric.