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Comment by slophater | Hacker News Reader

been at cf for 7 yrs but thinking of gtfo soon. the ceo is a manchild, new cto is an idiot, rest of leadership was replaced by yes-men, and the push for AI-first is being a disaster. c levels pretend they care about reliability but pressure teams to constantly ship, cto vibe codes terraform changes without warning anyone, and it's overall a bigger and bigger mess

even the blog, that used to be a respected source of technical content, has morphed into a garbage fire of slop and vaporware announcements since jgc left.

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Do you feel that Matthew Prince is still technically active/informed? I've interacted with him in the past and he seemed relatively technically grounded, but that doesn't seem as true these days.

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025215495142564177

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025221270061580453

Rather than be driven by something rational like building a great product or making lots of money he is apparently driven by a desperate fear of being a dinosaur.

Regardless of how competent he is or isn’t as a technologist, a leader leading with fear is a recipe for disaster.

Development has changed, I don't see much else he mentions.

As a dev, you'll need to have those stuff in your knowledge toolbox

I’ve had a lot of problems lately. Basic things are failing and it’s like product isn’t involved at all in the dash. What’s worse? The support.. the chat is the buggiest thing I’ve ever seen.

don't worry, if it gets much worse the ceo will just throw all of support under the bus again. it will surely get better.

How about accurate billing info. The ux can’t even figure out we’re annually not monthly. Maybe the AI slop will continue to miscount resources and cost you revenue or piss off a customer when the dashboards they been using don’t match the invoice

You know what they say, shit rolls downhill. I don't personally know the CEO, but the feeling I have got from their public fits on social media doesn't instill confidence.

If I was a CF customer I would be migrating off now.

do you care that much about leadership when using a service? even I dont know gcp's c-level, aws's c-level, even vercel's c-level. only know rauchg.

i think i care much more about our SLAs (if any)

GSD! GSD!! ship! ship! ship!

**everything breaks**

...

**everything breaks again**

oh fuck! Code Orange! I repeat, Code Orange! we need to rebuild trust(R)(TM)! we've let our customers down!

...

**everything breaks again**

Code Orangier! I repeat, Code Orangier!

exactly. recently "if the cto is shipping more than you, you're doing something wrong"

cto can't even articulate a sentence without passing it through an LLM, and instead of doing his job he's posting the stupidest shit to his personal bootlicking chat channel. I cringe every time at the brown-nosers that inhabit that hovel.

no words for what the product org is becoming too. they should take their own advice a bit further and just replace all the leadership with an LLM, it would be cheaper and it's the same shit in practice

I have worked in some dysfunctional places but nothing like that, does sound bad.

Just got to keep your head, remember it’s just a job and you get paid regardless. Clock in, clock out, do the work assigned to you but mentally just check out while you look for a new role

amazing how my comment was flagged in 30 seconds... keep bootlicking

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