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The Standup with ThePrimeagen

The Standup with ThePrimeagen

Cloudflare CTO talks AI, Opensource and the Future

Apr 3, 2026 · 57m

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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.…