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Bloody hell that's embarrassing, for both Cloudflare and the blog author. Did he not have anyone review it before publishing? So many failures coming out of Cloudflare these days, feels like they peaked a while ago and are slowly declining into incompetence.
I wonder if there's a particular new fad that could be causing this
nkuntz1934 Senior Engineering TPM @ Cloudflare Of course, this is done by a manager. Classic corporate mindset, I can do what these smelly nerds do every day, hold my bear. He doesn't even know how git works, huh? What a clown.
TPM isn't manager. It's basically a PM, but they're (supposed) to be technical
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To be fair, the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful .
Yeah normally the CF blog ranks as one of the best in the world in my book, so a post of lower quality and potentially AI slop really stands out here. That said I think the concept of a full matrix server running all on CF infrastructure/services is an awesome blog post from CF. Honestly I wish CF would simply unpublish/retract this blog post, put another engineer on it to help the PM, and spend another couple of wee…
I am quite shocked by such lack of care, and it does tarnish the reputation of Cloudflare in my eyes :/
I found the source code Jade was referring to, and it looks like the author just noticed this thread: https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/0823b47c...
Your commit is orphaned now; it seems he amended the log to a vague "Clean up code comments" to try to make the purpose less obvious: https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/2d3969dd...
Days after the fake story about Cursor building a web browser from scratch with GPT-5.2 was debunked. Disbelief should be the default reaction to stories like this.
I get vibe coding a feature or news story or whatnot but how do you go about not even checking if the thing actually works, or fact checking the blog post?
Technical blogs from infrastructure companies used to serve two purposes: demonstrate expertise and build trust. When the posts start overpromising, you lose both. I don't know enough about this specific implementation to say whether "implemented Matrix" is accurate or marketing stretch. But the pattern of "we did X" blog posts that turn out to be "we did a demo of part of X" is getting tiresome across the industry.…
To be fair, the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful .
I raised this point on a previous Cloudflare blog post - they've turned quite vapid these days. If you pay attention, they're stuffed to the brim with generated text which is sloppy and under-opinionated on the audience for the writing in the first place.
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This project is awesome - it really does render HTML+CSS effectively using 20,000 lines of dependency-free Rust (albeit using system libraries for image rendering and fonts). Here's a screenshot I took with it: https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mdg2oo6bms2...
1 MB binary? That IS very impressive
one-agent-one-browser-Linux-X64 1.14 MB
one-agent-one-browser-macOS-ARM64 1.02 MB
one-agent-one-browser-Windows-X64.exe 847 KB
The developer just "cleaned up the code comments", i.e. they removed all TODOs from the code: https://github.com/nkuntz1934/matrix-workers/commit/2d3969dd... Professionalism at its finest!
Here's the post on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nick-kuntz-61551869_building-...
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In a real "engineering" role, this person would be stripped of their license for stamping "production grade" on a bunch of AI slop. That doesn't exist in our trade, so yeah, public shaming is the next best thing. I sincerely hope links to this incident will haunt him every time someone googles his name forevermore.
Controlled by a machine and only there to put their names and reputations on the line when the machine messes up.
Maybe this applies more to a writer having to generate 20 articles per hour in some journalism sweatshop, pressured to push out anything that will catch the winds of SEO augmented news, but I would not discount the level of pressure that the author of the blog post was put under to produce something, anything...
Based on the published profile, I strongly suspect that this person is not paid that well at all. you are not looking at a FAANG kind of deal here most certainly.
So maybe spare one second of thought for that future where many many folks are just there to be burnt up in some cancellation machine whilst profit gets accumulated elsewhere...