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Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
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Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Engineers have been vibe coding a lot recently...
The featured blog post where one of their senior engineering PMs presented an allegedly "production grade" Matrix implementation, in which authentication was stubbed out as a TODO, says it all really. I'm glad a quarter of the internet is in such responsible hands.
there was also a post here where an engineer was parading around a vibe-coded oauth library he'd made as a demonstration of how great LLMs were
at which point the CVEs started to fly in
Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
#43I do not work in the space at all, but it seems like Cloudflare has been having more network disruptions lately than they used to. To anyone who deals with this sort of thing, is that just recency bias?
It has been roughly speaking five and a half years since the IPO. The original CTO (John Graham-Cumming) left about a year ago.
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Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
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Well I still appreciate a good postmortem even if I have no doubt it'll happen again imminently
Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
#45I do not work in the space at all, but it seems like Cloudflare has been having more network disruptions lately than they used to. To anyone who deals with this sort of thing, is that just recency bias?
It is not. They went about 5 years without one of these, and had a handful over the last 6 months. They're really going to need to figure out what's going wrong and clean up shop.
Typo: "shop", should have been with an 'el'.
(: phonetically, because 'l's are hard to read.
Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
#46I do not work in the space at all, but it seems like Cloudflare has been having more network disruptions lately than they used to. To anyone who deals with this sort of thing, is that just recency bias?
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.
Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
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and if they didn’t we’d posting about lack of transparency. damned if you do, damned if you don’t
Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Engineers have been vibe coding a lot recently...
No joke. In my company we "sabotaged" the AI initiative led by the CTO. We used LLMs to deliver features as requested by the CTO, but we introduced a couple of bugs here and there (intentionally). As a result, the quarter ended up with more time allocated to fix bugs and tons of customer claims. The CTO is now undoing his initiative. We all have now some time more to keep our jobs.
That's not "sabotaged", that's sabotaged, if you intentionally introduced the bugs. Be very careful admitting something like that publicly unless you're absolutely completely sure nobody could map your HN username to your real identity.
Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
#49again?
Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026
#50Reliability was/is CF's label.
It's alarming already. Too many outages in the past months. CF should fix it, or it becomes unacceptable and people will leave the platform.
I really hope they will figure things out.