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Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by hypeatei »

dakiol wrote: post #36
NinjaTrance wrote: post #8

Earlier 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 extremely unethical. You're being paid to do something and you deliberately broke it which not only cost your employer additional time and money, but it also cost your customers time and money. If I were you, I'd probably just quit and find another profession.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by samrus »

boarush wrote: post #32
jacquesm wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bluntly: they expended that credit a while ago. Those that can will move on. Those that can't have a real problem. As for your last sentence: Businesses really do care about the incident reports because they give good insight into whether they can trust the company going forward. Full transparency and a clear path to non-repetition due to process or software changes are called for. You be the judge of whether or not…

I might be looking at it differently, but aren't decisions over a certain provider of service being made by the management. Incident reports don't ever reach there in my experience.

In my experience, the gist of it does reach management when its an existing vendor. Especially if management is tech literate

Becuase management wants to know why the graphs all went to zero, and the engineers have nothing else to do but relay the incident report.

This builds a perception for management of the vendor, and if the perception is that the vendor doesnt tell them shit or doesnt even seem to know theres an outage, then management can decide to shift vendors

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

#64

Post by sp00chy »

samrus wrote: post #57
dakiol wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thats actively malicious. I understand not going out of your way to catch the LLMs' bugs so as to show the folly of the initiative, but actively sabotaging it is legitimately dangerous behavior. Its acting in bad faith. And i say this as someone who would mostly oppose such an initiative myself I would go so far as to say that you shouldnt be employed in the industry. Malicious actors like you will contribute to an e…

Might be but sometimes you don’t have another choice when employers are enforcing AIs which have no „feeling“ for context of all business processes involved created by human workers in the years before. Those who spent a lot of love and energy for them mostly. And who are now forced to work against an inferior but overpowered workforce.

Don’t stop sabotaging AI efforts.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

#65

Post by goalieca »

slophater wrote: post #46
atty wrote: post #4

I 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 t…

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.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by gtowey »

jsheard wrote: post #18
NinjaTrance wrote: post #8

Earlier 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.

It's spreading and only going to get worse.

Management thinks AI tools should make everyone 10x as productive, so they're all trying to run lean teams and load up the remaining engineers with all the work. This will end about as well as the great offshoring of the early 2000s.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

#67

Post by renegade-otter »

dakiol wrote: post #36
NinjaTrance wrote: post #8

Earlier 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.

I see someone is not familiar with the joys of the current job market.

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

#68

Post by arcatech »

argestes wrote: post #53
otar wrote: post #50

Reliability 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.

I have many things dependent on Cloudflare. That makes me root for Cloudflare and I think I'm not the only one. Instead of finding better options we're getting stuck on an already failing HA solution. I wonder what caused this.

Do you not feel concern about you and everybody else deciding to put ALL of their eggs into one basket like this?

Re: Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

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Post by __turbobrew__ »

slophater wrote: post #46
atty wrote: post #4

I 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 t…

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.

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