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Posted by elithrar 6 days ago

EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security(blog.cloudflare.com)
701 points | 502 commentspage 13
asmor 5 days ago||
After the last time Cloudflare released some vibecoded crap that wasn't what they said it was (this happened more than once, but the last one was Matrix), my interest to engage with this was near zero. The name did the rest. Fuck this entire fucking industry.
ChrisArchitect 5 days ago||
Held up getting into the details of this ambitious project because of the name! Ridiculous choice considering the associations with AI, slop, and even the general crowded namespace surrounding that. C'mon.

(looks for cameras) Wait a minute, am I being Punk'D? Oh my god! Ashton, you really got me! Ha Ha! Ashton!

eis 5 days ago||
After all the AI slop from Cloudflare in recent months and the embarrassment that came with it, they dare to launch this vibe coded project with THAT name on April 1st? I'm really not sure what to think anymore. Reality became too absurd.
sam345 5 days ago||
I for one am glad that WordPress has some competition. This sounds like a killer rewrite.
_cloned 5 days ago||
Payload
yeah879846 5 days ago||
"Failed to initialize playground"
vntok 5 days ago|
Try again once or twice.
VerifiedReports 5 days ago||
plug-in security
squidbeak 5 days ago|
Impressive and created by agents. Another example for skeptics wondering where the AI apps are.
allknowingfrog 5 days ago||
I think this is too soon to call. No one questions whether AI can build things. We question whether they can build stable things that work as expected and stay online in the long run.
amarant 5 days ago|||
I too have seen a lot of comments asking where the products are. If you're now moving the goal posts to "stay online in the long run" you're gonna have to wait until there's been a long run to stay online in. Agents aren't that old yet.
saadn92 5 days ago||||
The stability question is real but I think it's framed wrong. The issue isn't whether an agent can write correct code in a single session -- they can, and pretty reliably now. It's whether there's a human with enough understanding of the codebase to debug it when something breaks at 2am.

I run parallel coding agents on my own projects daily. The code they produce is fine. What worries me is the "just ship it" energy where nobody on the team deeply understands what got built. That's not an AI problem, it's been a problem with outsourced codebases forever. AI just makes it faster to accumulate code nobody fully groks.

Cloudflare probably has the engineering depth to maintain this regardless of how it was built. A lot of other teams don't.

skybrian 5 days ago|||
This will largely be based on the maintainers’ priorities. Coding agents can audit and clean up code too, provided that you set the right goals.
carlos-menezes 5 days ago|||
> "Failed to initialize playground"

Impressive indeed!

vntok 5 days ago||
Try again a few times, it ends up loading.
MrFurious 5 days ago||
The successor to WordPress will wear out the F5 key
101008 5 days ago||
did you test it? How do you know it works?
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