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   Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 07:16:16 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

   New AI blogpost from Cloudflare! Can you guess what it's about? The title is "Building for the Future" https://blog.cloudflare.com/building-for-the-future/

   That's right it's about laying off over a thousand people thanks to AI!

   > We are writing to let you know directly that we’ve made the decision to reduce Cloudflare’s workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally.
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   > The way we work at Cloudflare has fundamentally changed. We don’t just build and sell AI tools and platforms. 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 customers and to honor our mission to help build a better Internet for everyone, everywhere.

   Yeah uhuh

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 07:52:25 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)

     @eviloatmeal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sweH1131Vw0

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     eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw) (eviloatmeal@ak.angelstrapped.com)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 07:52:27 JST eviloatmeal, resident Death Stranding 2 apologist (arch, btw)

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     @cwebber It's not "cutting costs" it's "creating value". Just like how buying extraneous things that are on sale is "saving money".
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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 07:52:28 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     > Today is a hard day. This decision unfortunately means saying goodbye to teammates who have contributed meaningfully to our mission and to building Cloudflare into one of the world’s most successful companies.

     Oh

     > Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise or an assessment of individuals’ performance; they are about Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates and creates value in the agentic AI era.

     I see

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     Billy Smith (billysmith@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 08:19:59 JST Billy Smith

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     @cwebber

     It sounds like a good time to short Cloudflare stock. :D

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     To #Flancia and beyond! (flancian@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 10:31:04 JST To #Flancia and beyond!

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     @cwebber a sacrifice for [[Moloch]] as usual in late stage capitalism

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     Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 10:32:39 JST Christine Lemmer-Webber

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     • Dr. Bruce Simpson

     @bms48 I'm guessing Kenton's probably fine, since he's taken a lot of leadership in the LLM adoption stuff Cloudflare is doing and was more or less the main architect of Cloudflare Workers

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     Dr. Bruce Simpson (bms48@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 08-May-2026 10:32:40 JST Dr. Bruce Simpson

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     @cwebber Oh dear. I hope Kenton Varda is OK. It was only a matter of time til the contagion spread. He did have the foresight to keep Cap'n Proto separate, but Cloudflare are dependent upon it for Workers. I came across some R&D today which has more promise than CapTP though, but implementation availabilty and maturity are concerns. I am fed up of this pseudo-religious VC-driven LLM fart huffing. I have my domains parked on Cloudflare for the moment, and their anti-bot stuff is useful, but...

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     James Baker 🍁 (grumpusnation@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 00:27:33 JST James Baker 🍁

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     @cwebber That was fast…

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     Tom Casavant (tom@tomkahe.com)'s status on Saturday, 09-May-2026 01:56:11 JST Tom Casavant

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     @cwebber

     not a cost-cutting exercise

     Maybe I don't understand what they mean by this, but how could this not be about cost-cutting? Isn't that what it is when you cut labor costs because you think AI can do that labor cheaper?