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Vercel April 2026 security incident

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Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#115

What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.

Can one host a Next js app on cloudflare?

yes, https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/framework-guides/w...

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

#117

What is the rationale for using vercel ? I'm getting a lot of value out of cloudflare with the $5/month plan lately but my bare metal box with triple digit ram has seen zero downtime since 2015.

0.82% of homes are burglarized every year. Meaning since 2015, you’ve got an 8.2% chance of having someone walk out with that box. Hopefully there’s nothing precious on it.

That’s not how probabilities work.

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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post #116

Claude Code defaulting to a certain set of recommended providers[0] and frameworks is making the web more homogenous and that lack of diversity is increasing the blast radius of incidents [0] https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks/report

It's a good point, but I don't think the problem here is Claude. It's how you use it. We need to be guiding developers to not let Claude make decisions for them. It can help guide decisions, but ultimately one must perform the critical thinking to make sure it is the right choice. This is no different than working with any other teammate for that matter.

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

0.82% of homes are burglarized every year. Meaning since 2015, you’ve got an 8.2% chance of having someone walk out with that box. Hopefully there’s nothing precious on it.

That’s not how probabilities work.

Imagining a thief walking in and demanding the home's RAM gave me a chuckle though.

Thieves probably look for small stuff like jewelry, cash, laptops, not some big old server.

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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post #116

Claude Code defaulting to a certain set of recommended providers[0] and frameworks is making the web more homogenous and that lack of diversity is increasing the blast radius of incidents [0] https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks/report

It's a good point, but I don't think the problem here is Claude. It's how you use it. We need to be guiding developers to not let Claude make decisions for them. It can help guide decisions, but ultimately one must perform the critical thinking to make sure it is the right choice. This is no different than working with any other teammate for that matter.

I think most people would agree.

However it is less clear on how to do this, people mostly take the easiest path.

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