We Rebuilt Next.js in a Week with AI—vinext Delivers 4x Faster Builds

How We Rebuilt Next.js with AI in One Week: The vinext Story The Core Question: In an era of rapidly advancing AI, is it possible to reconstruct a massive frontend framework like Next.js from scratch in just a few days? The answer is a resounding yes. By leveraging a strict test suite, clear architectural planning, and state-of-the-art AI models, a single engineer built vinext in under a week—a Vite-based, high-performance alternative to Next.js. Last week, one engineer and an AI model rebuilt the most popular front-end framework from scratch. The result is vinext (pronounced “vee-next”), a drop-in replacement for Next.js. …