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@cwebber has it even been a year since that top Cloudflare engineer created a security library and announced it with much "trust me bro, I know how to AI" fanfare, only to have it raked over the coals for having security holes you could drive a truck through and having to warn it was not for production use?

@cwebber a sacrifice for [[Moloch]] as usual in late stage capitalism

@cwebber "We don’t just build and sell AI tools and platforms. We are our own most demanding customer." is a great way to show how much demand there is in the market for their AI tools and platforms

@cwebber As one of my previous posts alluded to, I wish former employees all the best, and I wish current executives a very happy solar flare.

@cwebber I was very close to getting a job with Cloudflare about a year ago but in the 11th hour it didn't work out. May have been a blessing in disguise (though at the time I was devistated).

I wonder if me saying something thing like "if genAI isn't giving us a 4 day work week, what are we even doing?" was a factor 😂

@cwebber @cloudflare cloudflare is responsible for rotting the internet from within. Their CDN is essentially a vibe, and they don’t care about anything other than keeping their shitty investors happy. Line must always go up.

@cwebber did ai write this (probably)

@cwebber I wonder if there's an industry that has adopted AI tools as much as, or more than, software engineers, to this day.

I genuinely wonder if we're a majority of idiots, accepting the “token burn = productivity” discourse, and getting more layoffs as a reward.

@cwebber Oh dear. I hope Kenton Varda is OK. It was only a matter of time til the contagion spread. He did have the foresight to keep Cap'n Proto separate, but Cloudflare are dependent upon it for Workers. I came across some R&D today which has more promise than CapTP though, but implementation availabilty and maturity are concerns. I am fed up of this pseudo-religious VC-driven LLM fart huffing. I have my domains parked on Cloudflare for the moment, and their anti-bot stuff is useful, but...

@cwebber I predict those who remain will work 80hr weeks to out of fear. Things will keep chugging at a modest pace and the credit will go to ai.

@cwebber@social.coop this would be the first year they have lost employees on net (and is almost as many fires as they had hires last year) so this suggests to me that they're having a really bad time and doing "AI!!!" because that sounds better than "well we're fucked lmao"

> Today is a hard day. This decision unfortunately means saying goodbye to teammates who have contributed meaningfully to our mission and to building Cloudflare into one of the world’s most successful companies.

Oh

> Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era.

I see