Engineering Insights

Redesigned trace viewer for Vercel Workflows

The trace viewer for and has been redesigned to better support inspecting runs from start to finish. Search across spans, zoom into any section of the timeline, and step through with the keyboard to find what you're looking for fast, then click into any step to see its inputs, outputs, and run metadata.Vercel WorkflowsWorkflow SDK The trace viewer is also available locally through with to inspect runs during development.Workflow SDKnpx workflow@beta web Learn more about .Vercel Workflows Rea

Self-Correcting Structured Output in Spring AI 2.0

This Week in Spring - June 23rd, 2026

Price the Work, Not the Workflow

Agents can ship, preview, test, and retry in loops. Infrastructure pricing should charge for the work an app performs, not the workflow around it.

Search the Prisma Docs Using Your Coding Agent

The Prisma MCP server now answers documentation questions in your editor. Ask about ORM, Postgres, or Compute and get a cited answer, no tab-switching, no extra setup.

Four travel and hospitality trends from HITEC 2026

More than 6,000 hospitality executives and operators gathered in San Antonio last week for the HITEC conference. The big topic: whether the industry’s AI investment is actually working. Across four days and over 50 meetings, four trends stood out.

Preserve local environment variables when linking with the Vercel CLI

The Vercel CLI now preserves your file when running . Previously, linking could overwrite variables already in the file. The CLI now updates if it exists, or appends it if missing, without touching anything else..env.localvercel linkVERCEL_OIDC_TOKEN Run to update, then run to get started. Learn more in the .pnpm i -g vercel@latestvercel linkvercel link documentation Read more

Context engineering vs prompt engineering: the real difference

A customer asks your support agent whether their refund went through. The agent checks, says yes, and cites a confirmation number. The refund actually bounced back twenty minutes ago, but the lookup the agent ran hit a store that only syncs overnight....