I've just finished a really tedious process of trying to figure out how to make my new tool deployable on Vercel. It's not yet fully functional, but at least I'm done with the most important part — making the API scripts work.

The solution was not that complex, but one simply has to know how the Vercel functions operate and are bundled. And there’s no straightforward doc on this. I didn’t find anything using web search. A lot of chunks of information that don’t give the full picture, only addressing very specific, not even cases, but configuration parts. When there are no examples of using something, it’s much harder to understand how to use a tool.

And Vercel is very good at being bad with the docs. Shit. The more I work with it, the more I hate it.

And the community. Oh, man. I didn’t get any responses at all to my questions, neither on reddit, nor in the Vercel discussions. What really helped me was the fucking AI. I spent 3 evenings ping-ponging with it, with different prompts and error messages, until finally my code worked.

What frustrates me is how passive the community is. It’s like, instead of RTFM, nowadays, everyone just prefers to ignore a question that they see as an easy one, a duplicate or whatever. The stuff I have been trying to figure out lately, in most cases, felt like it was only me who had these kinds of issues. And it drives me mad. Am I stupid? Is this really a very niche problem? Hasn’t anybody really faced it yet?

And the fact that AI is becoming a better way to figure out such things saddens me. The main reason for this is that it’s not thinking, it simply spews out something that should be relevant. But it’s like chatting with a support bot. It can help you to resolve your issue, but it can also completely misguide you. And while human communication can actually lead to a resolution, with an AI you can simply get stuck in some kind of stupid loop.

And what really pisses me off is how big brands (any fucking brand) stop being accountable for their services and products. If a customer has already paid, the first thing a brand tries to do is to make them to fuck off. They actually spend a lot of resources to make this happen. And I’m sure a lot of people get so annoyed during all the back and forth, that they choose to just get over with it and move along. The lack of accountability has become a massive issue and people don’t talk about it enough.