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Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
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Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#902"We are our own most demanding customer. Cloudflare’s usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone. Employees across the company from engineering to HR to finance to marketing run thousands of AI agent sessions each day to get their work done. That means we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our cu…
Typical fire until something breaks and usually that something is inertia/timelines. Stagnation really
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#903Fyi, the CEO claims[0] they fired very few engineers. The prime target were allegedly salespeople 0: https://x.com/eastdakota/status/2052560831909433554
This comment should be higher given how much FUD is in these comments. Hacker News having a meltdown about a bunch of backoffice folks getting laid off while they’re still aggressively hiring SWEs is… something
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#904Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is so ethically and morally odious I struggle to find the words to describe it. I’ve managed people out. I’m sure I’ll have to do it again. I’ve even let people go during probation but, on the rare occasions that’s happened, I’ve seen it as a failure of the hiring process. People have families, they have mortgages, bills to pay, and a powerful need to eat (Mal, Serenity?). The last thing I want is for someone to…
> People have families, they have mortgages, bills to pay, and a powerful need to eat (Mal, Serenity?). The last thing I want is for someone to give up a stable job that allows them to do that to come and work for me only so I can fire them and leave them up the creek a few weeks or months down the line. Literally none of that is the employer’s responsibility. It’s just a business transaction. Having sufficient savin…
It’s not the employer’s responsibility, but do you think it’s ethical to hire someone so that they can contribute to your firing metrics?
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#905You have however many people who you seem to believe have no useful work to do in their current roles. You aren't bleeding money. Is that not the time to invest in new products? To take moonshots?
Is this not admitting that they simply can't come up with any new ideas to invest in? That their intellectual capacity has topped out?
Profitable companies laying people off like this tells me they're done innovating and now it is time to milk the cash cows for all they're worth.
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#906This is awkward. Exhibit A - September 2025 - "Help build the future" - Cloudflare hires 1111 interns to "help build the future" [ https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-1111-intern-program/ ] Exhibit B - May 2026 - "Building for the future" - Cloudflare lays off 1100 people, about 20% of their workforce to "continue building the future" [ https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/ ] I'll finish on this quo…
Also how EMs in amazon construct hunger games. Just hire a person every now and then so they can let go of another to prove you made your team better on some non-sensical performance evaluation axes..Cue the hunger games.
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#907Earlier quoted context omitted.
I always wonder what happens to institutional knowledge in American companies.
Picture a space station where there's an error when trying to seal the door and they proceed anyway and it explodes from the pressure differential as all the air escapes out to space.
This is literally a scene from Interstellar
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#908Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had OpenCode doing most of my substantial code changes for me, once I figured out what the code changes had to be. (so, it saved me typing but not thinking) I also vibe-coded (really slop-forked TBH, that's the Cloudflare way after all) an internal tool that our team used. I definitely was not a small user of our AI tools, though I know that there are others with significantly more.
Were there smaller users of AI who still remain after this workforce reduction?
I don't have a particularly good idea of how much others were using it, unfortunately.
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#909Welp, looks like I’m affected. If anyone is looking to hire a systems engineer with distributed systems and load balancing experience, shoot me an email at @piperswe.me :/ I’ll update this with a resume link tonight…
Dude, you have the most amazing name ever. Hope you know that.
Thank you, I picked it myself :)
Re: Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce
#910Surprising that the share price took a dip on this. Normally retrenchments are seen as a plus