A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens (Tim Anderson/The Register)
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February 26, 2026
Tim Anderson / The Register: A Cloudflare engineer rebuilt Next.js from scratch in one week using AI, reimplementing 94% of its API and spending $1,100 on Claude tokens — Uses Vite and Claude to sidestep Vercel lock-in — A Cloudflare engineer says he has implemented 94 percent of the Next.js API by directing Anthropic's Claude …
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