Steve Faulkner
Engineering leader at Cloudflare serving as Director of Engineering for Workers. Known in this episode for creating vinext, a Vite-powered Next.js fork, and for discussing AI-assisted software development workflows.
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Mar 18, 2026 • 47min
988: Cloudflare’s Next.js Slop Fork
Steve Faulkner, Cloudflare engineering director and creator of vinext, joins to unpack rebuilding Next.js with Vite in a week. They dig into AI coding workflows, markdown planning, agent browsers, and why tight feedback loops matter. It also gets into messy AI code quality, security testing, framework porting vs switching, and what AI-first languages and tooling might look like.
Apr 3, 2026 • 57min
Cloudflare CTO talks AI, Opensource and the Future
Dane Knecht, Cloudflare CTO—platform strategist; Steve Faulkner, Director of Engineering—developer platforms lead; Dillon Mulroy, engineer—AI and agent teams streamer. They unpack Vinext’s wild origin from an intern prototype. Conversations jump from AI-driven PR review and triage to open source parity challenges. They debate Hyrum’s Law, agent guardrails, and what it takes to make a risky project production-ready.
Apr 3, 2026 • 57min
Cloudflare CTO talks AI, Opensource and the Future
Dane Knecht, Cloudflare CTO with deep platform experience; Steve Faulkner, Director of Engineering who led Vinext work; Dillon Mulroy, engineer on an AI/agent team and streamer. They dig into Vinext’s origin from an intern prototype. They discuss AI agents triaging PRs, maintaining parity with Next.js, Hyrum’s Law friction, and when humans must re-enter the loop.
