About this episode

The episode features a discussion with the Cloudflare team about their AI-assisted project Vinext and its implications for open source and software development.

Ship with confidence. Try Sentry: https://trm.sh/sentry This week on The Standup, we sit down with the team behind Cloudflare’s “Vinext” experiment an attempt to bring the Next.js API surface onto a completely different runtime. What starts as a simple “why does this exist?” quickly turns into a deep dive on AI-driven development, open source in the age of agents, and what happens when an intern is told to “just build Next.js” . Dane Knecht, Steve Faulkner, and Dillon Mulroy walk through how the project went from a half-finished intern prototype to a full-blown AI-assisted experiment complete with bots reviewing PRs, triaging issues, and even maintaining parity with the Next.js repo itself. Along the way, we get into the realities of maintaining a “not-a-fork-but-kind-of-a-fork,” why developers keep depending on undocumented behavior anyway, and how AI both creates and fixes its own messes . Naturally, it spirals. We talk about Hyrum’s Law in practice, template-string nightmares, “slop” codebases, and the growing question of whether throwing more AI at a problem is actually a strategy. Somewhere in there, we also hit on build systems, performance tradeoffs, and what it means to…

People in this episode

Host: ThePrimeagen

Guests: Dane Knecht, Steve Faulkner, Dillon Mulroy

Topics covered

• AI-driven development
• open source
• Next.js
• software development
• project management
• performance tradeoffs

Keywords

• Cloudflare
• AI
• open source
• Next.js
• Vinext
• software development
• Sentry
• performance
• intern project

Sponsors

Sentry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Cloudflare

Products: Next.js, Vinext, Sentry

More episodes of The Standup with ThePrimeagen

• What Mythos Means for Software Security · April 18, 2026 · 57 min
• Trash Made a Black Mirror App · April 10, 2026 · 55 min
• is AI ruining opensource? (Lost episode) · March 26, 2026 · 53 min
• Casey HATES this graph · March 20, 2026 · 1h 7m
• Indie Game Dev is Way Harder Than You Think · March 17, 2026 · 1h 2m
• Whats really going on with AI, Expert weighs in · March 13, 2026 · 1h 35m

Explore listener stats, chart rankings, contacts and more on the The Standup with ThePrimeagen podcast page.