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Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people(20% of staff)
(blog.cloudflare.com)
Today’s actions are not a cost-cutting exercise
Uh
Ruining lives for the love of the game
Really the techbro cult members did it to themselves.... welcome to the lumpkin pumpkin... you smell goooood 🤤
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?
Since they're using (now expensive) genAI and productivity isn't improving, because it almost never does, rhen they need to do something to appease stakeholders and offset the cost of using genAI, ofc.
That and keeping employee's perception of power and self worth down, so they keep working their asses off in the hopes of not being the next in line.
If productivity is not improving with the use of "(now expensive)" genAI, then turn it off, not lay off
I think it might be very hard for AI-pilled leadership to back off from their claims and AI mandates and it would not help the hype that they might be banking on/profiting from.
ok, if they are profiting from genAI (and cloudflair has the means to run their own with out the big 3 or 4) then turbo charge that advantage by keeping the 1000 devs that are running all these agents. if they are not, keep the 100 devs and move them to developing the AI so that it works...
Because people are too poor to purchase the extra output, assuming that the AI has actually lead to better productivity.
When there isn't enough aggregate demand to absorb extra output from productivity gains, firms will opt to increase profits by reduce their costs by cutting back on spending instead.
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
And the CEO will get a big bonus for this, I guarantee it
Well they gave them time to download the full source code base, and steal office supplies. So that's kinda nice.
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.
I find it especially egregious that they'd use that metric as justification when most of these tech companies have internal LLM usage quotas you must hit lest you be reprimanded or fired. So you're forced to use the tool despite its garbage results, then that very same usage is quoted as reason for losing 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)"
Relative pay from lowest worker to CEO has skyrocketed over decades. It’s utopian how unequal things have become. No wonder people are struggling
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
I bet ya there’s some meds on your bathroom counter you might want to make sure you took this morning.
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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