The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

· · March 5, 2026, 6:30 p.m.
Summary
An engineer at Cloudflare has rewritten much of Vercel's Next.js using AI agents in just a week, signaling the potential disruption of established business models by AI technologies. The piece provides an analysis of this development and its implications for the tech landscape.
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