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headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

All of us who work with AI, and HN audience especially, know the gap between what can the agent do now, and "it fulfill the functions of my job" is something that won't be overcome anytime soon. Anyone who really believes that's the case is just showcasing their lack of knowledge

Matthew Price calls it "an electric screwdriver". Does that sound like someone who has ever gotten deep on anything?

headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

My orgs products. Others, probably not. There is a lot water they could have targeting and gone after. Starting with Dane's idiotic incomplete messes he left around and declaring them done and leaving people to clean his garbage up

Leadership is terrible and they're out of ideas. AI is going to be the future but it can't even review code properly

Their "no profit" is entire accounting trickery

headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

The pasture is pretty crowded and full of shit. But thanks, friend. I appreciate it

headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

I really don't know. My org now has 40+ engineers with 2 managers. Down from 6. I really don't know how they will do it. Each one of us were handling critical shit, and desperately needed more engineers. PMs made things run and they got hit even harder

No one had any idea. My director got the same email

headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce

The bottleneck is never code

headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

I know of 4 teams in Cloudflare One, who lost EMs, PMs and engineers in really critical connectivity systems. Our list of things we need to do is years long. Many of those are needed for reliability and scaling.

They quietly stopped hiring months ago and I figured things were not good. My mistake was thinking my group would be a little safer being profit drivers and big deals...

headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

Absolutely. My hope is selfish - the market is awful

headintheskyon Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce

This really sucks. I loved this job. I'm an EM and I was trying to hire more people because we're so busy with everything we needed to do. My teams products are something like 95% profit.

Really going to miss my team, they were wonderful to work with. Secretly hoping they'll have to rehire.

I refuse to believe it was about AI. Coming from the inside, the bottleneck was never code. Seeing who is being laid off, especially on my team, it's the people who make things run.