May 01, 2026
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
Key takeaways:
- AI has made “start from scratch” a realistic option. Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js in a matter of days for $1,100, producing something faster and purpose-built for their infrastructure.
- Agentic coding shifts engineers from writing code to directing it.
- Not every team should rebuild everything, but every team should be asking the question: the build-versus-buy equation has fundamentally changed.
We’ve come a long way from in-line AI code suggestions. Now, developers are using AI-coding agents to reverse-engineer entire software components and even major frameworks.
The latest case comes from Cloudflare.
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May 01, 2026
