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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by paxys on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:22PM (#47144952)
You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time?
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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by hu3 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:24PM (#47144964)
Isn't that how Linux started?
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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by paxys on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:28PM (#47145021)
No, not at all
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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by hungryhobbit on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:38PM (#47145135)
Actually, that's exactly how it started: read Linus Torvalds' "Just for Fun".
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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by paxys on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:45PM (#47145198)
Was Linux owned by a large company? Was the maintainer getting paychecks from that company? Was it profit motivated? Was it released as an AI experiment?

If the similarity is "they are both open source projects" then so are about a million others. 99.99% of them don't get any traction beyond the first week.

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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by rovr138 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:38PM (#47145719)
The similarity is to,

> You think you'll get better long-term support from an experiment that a single engineer did in his spare time?

Linus started it as an experiment. That's a single engineer doing it on his spare time.

Do you think Linux doesn't do long-term support right?

The one changing the goal post is you.

https://github.com/cloudflare/vinext It is MIT licensed. It can be used and maintained by anyone.

If it'll get adoption like Linux did, that's different. But the base is there.

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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by hu3 on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @06:36PM (#47145106)
For all I know Linux started a hobby project from one person.

So entertain me if you disagree.

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Re:How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week by baby on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @04:16PM (#47157983)
what if we all move to vinext? I'm asking claude to migrate us in a git worktree using a team of agent, installed the vinext skill to help with that, it did it in 10min

also why do you need support? agents are the support

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