Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise

Uh

If teams are so good with AI, why cut the teams. Surly they could grow, develop and add value much faster if they kept the 1000 people and used AI?

Within the next hour, every member of our global team will receive an email from both of us clarifying how this change affects them. For those departing today, ...

Brutal

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.

Translation: Skip the AI and you might keep your job.

And yet their bullshit is fucking everywhere.

unmitigated audacity to title this blog “building for the future”. i know PR is gonna PR but jfc.

Let me guess the same BS as with Oracle: "We need more money for AI so that's why we brain drain our company by firing everyone who is too expensive (except the CEO)"

That’s not a good sign.

They’ve been unprofitable for years. This move will probably push them into the black next year. Every company is using AI as an excuse for layoffs when it’s just over hiring.

good.... the techbro losers are going down with the ship while the corpos take the money and run. They are acelerating... this is when there will be true change. Really actualy good news. The veil is being removed and the toxic positive optimist are crying in their cornflakes. Even you suits are in the cross hairs. Ladder pullers phonies get a dose of their own medicine.... hows that optimism treatin yah... you started as zoo keeper now you are the exhibit. "Little Timmy if you look right over there in the corner you can see the endangered tech employee... do you see him barking trying to maintain his territory." ... AI did not take your job your economy is shrinking... come on liberals, you stand in the way put your theories to the test. I am waiting.... tap tap tap