---
title: "CascadiaJS 2026: It's time to rethink everything"
description: "Theo Browne compares how cloud infrastructure and coding agents changed the cost of experimentation."
group: source
speaker: "Theo Browne"
date: 2026-06-17
url: https://youtu.be/TV6f2weVgCI
sources:
  - https://youtu.be/TV6f2weVgCI
---

# CascadiaJS 2026: It's time to rethink everything

Theo compares the cloud's effect on infrastructure with agents' effect on software production. He asks developers to revisit assumptions about Git, files, packages, and narrow products as their costs change. [01:50](https://youtu.be/TV6f2weVgCI?t=110) [04:03](https://youtu.be/TV6f2weVgCI?t=243) [06:11](https://youtu.be/TV6f2weVgCI?t=371)

He presents Lakebed as an example of one developer rebuilding a broad deployment stack, while noting its current quality is deliberately limited. [20:48](https://youtu.be/TV6f2weVgCI?t=1248) [22:41](https://youtu.be/TV6f2weVgCI?t=1361)