Gergely Orosz 3/5/2026

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

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Cloudflare shocked developers by using AI to rewrite the popular Next.js framework in a week, replacing its proprietary build engine with Vite. This move allows Next.js apps to be deployed on Cloudflare, challenging Vercel's ecosystem and sparking discussion on the defensibility of commercial open source projects.

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

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