// The Pragmatic Engineer · 26 February 2026

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

An engineer at Cloudflare rewrote most of Vercel’s Next.js in one week with AI agents. It looks like a sign of how AI will disrupt existing moats and business models. Analysis

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