Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source

cadamsdotcom

Good riddance to the strategy of designing your software with subtle incompatibilities that make it hard to leave. If you’re too tyrannical someone will rewrite your stuff and you’ll be replaced. We’re headed to a world of more viable alternatives. And companies competing on customer service. After all, putting in the energy to migrate to a one-week-old web framework isn’t in the risk appetite of most of Vercel’s customers; unless Vercel is truly distasteful as a vendor, and then people can leave with less effort than before. So the existence of vinext, even if no one moves to it, keeps Vercel more honest than a world without it. Really good news for both consumers and business.

ChrisArchitect

Previously: How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47142156