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by tills13 113 days ago
I get the gist here but I hate the tone of these sorts of posts. Imagine being a NextJS developer, pouring your heart and soul into it day after day, knowing the codebase inside and out, and seeing some dude on the Cloudflare blog bragging about how he rewrote your project in a week using AI. It's tone deaf. It's not impressive.

The tool is hella useful. The messaging is ignorant. This should have been a "we built a tool to deploy NextJS on cloudflare natively" instead of this AI brag.
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codenomnom 112 days ago
I partially agree with you, because Vercel put a ton of effort on this one. And the repo (and features list) is massive.

On the other hand, I do believe they drifted too much and stopped listening. As someone else said it - most of the fancy features are used by 1% of the projects, and everything else is buried in hacks and workarounds.

I also agree the tone (and especially the AI brag) is a bit too much. And at the same time it's honest - it doesn't need to be THAT hard and complex. Nor slow :)

That's why I've written an open letter to fix Next.js, to whomever wants to do it (Vercel, Cloudflare or anyone else). Because we have needs, and we cannot play this game anymore...

https://please-fix-next.com/ if you're interested

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sgarland 113 days ago
Tbf, stuff gets rewritten all the time.

asdf was the hot shit for quite a while, with people (myself included) invoking all kinds of shell arcanum to make it faster - then mise (née rtx) came out, and it was game over. Compatible with asdf’s ecosystem, but infinitely faster.

Poetry was incredibly popular, along with various other competitors, and then uv came out.

I get what you’re saying about the AI angle, because it’s somewhat different when a human takes your crown by dint of pure skill, but it’s gotta sting either way.

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jryle70 113 days ago
Tone deaf? It's the reality. Developers shouldn't bury their head under the sand. Chart your course accordingly.

> Rewrote your project

That project would die without user's adoption. Be appreciative. Nextjs is an open source project. What is it with HN that constantly praise the virtue of open source software, but downplay that fact the moment they don't like the outcome?

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