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Vercel's Next.js 16.2 delivers an 87 percent reduction in dev server startup time, up to 60 percent faster rendering via a React contribution, and introduces experimental tooling that gives AI coding agents direct access to browser DevTools and component trees from the terminal.

Vite 8.0 replaces its dual esbuild-and-Rollup architecture with Rolldown, a Rust-based bundler delivering 10-30x faster builds. Linear reports build times dropping from 46 to 6 seconds.