Maintaining a codebase with AI | The Standup

Ship with confidence. Try Sentry: https://trm.sh/sentry Full episode on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5JF055lquoK8LHjYuz3eJI 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. Along the way, we get into the realities of maintaining a “not-a-fork-but-kind-of-a-fork,” why developers keep depending on undocumented behavior anyway, and how AI both creates and fixes its own messes . Chapters 00:00:00 - Intro 00:01:41 - NextJs 00:03:28 - Sentry 00:04:27 - Interns and AI bots 00:06:42 - Opensource in the AI world 00:07:46 - Fork or not 00:10:38 - Surface Area 00:14:43 - Post Experiment 00:15:53 - Mitigating Slop 00:18:10 - Agentic Development 00:27:37 - Reception 00:31:13 - What is Vite? 00:36:49 - Sentiment 00:38:47 - Managing AI 00:43:32 - Outro https://twitch.tv/ThePrimeagen - I Stream on Twitch https://twitter.com/terminaldotshop - Want to order coffee over SSH? ssh terminal.shop Become Backend Dev: https://boot.dev/prime (plus i make courses for them) This is also the best way to support me is to support yourself becoming a better backend engineer. Great News? Want me to research and create video????: https://www.reddit.com/r/ThePrimeagen Kinesis Advantage 360: https://bit.ly/Prime-Kinesis