"Tom Occhino, chief product officer at Vercel, knows a lot about AI, open-source technology, and software development. He spent over a decade at Meta, where he helped build React, a wildly popular framework for developing web user interfaces and apps. Tom was one of the first technologists to introduce me to the idea of "disposable apps." AI coding tools, including Vercel's v0 service, are making software development easier and quicker."
"Folks will paste a CSV file or spreadsheet into v0 and get a quick and easy interactive dashboard. Vercel had a hackathon kickoff and someone put all the information about the event into a v0 app that they used to present the details to their team. Occhino's wife organized a trip to Europe for her and some friends and turned a planning document into a bespoke travel app with day-by-day agendas."
"Occhino has built a few of these himself. He has a web app that helps him count stuff, such as the number of light switches in his home, and the number of desks in Vercel's office. You can check that one out here. He spun up another app that gives him instant information on his location, wherever and whenever he needs it. Occhino said he uses this one all the time."
Tom Occhino is chief product officer at Vercel and previously helped build React at Meta. He introduced the concept of disposable apps, enabled by AI coding tools like Vercel's v0 that lower upfront development effort. These tools make it fast and cheap to build single-purpose apps that can be discarded after use. Examples include transforming a pasted CSV into an interactive dashboard, a hackathon event app presenting logistics, and a bespoke travel planning app with day-by-day agendas. Occhino built personal apps for counting household items and instant location info; those persist because he uses them.
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