"You either die the heroic startup, or you live to become the MBA'd villain"

My 100% completely personal opinion.

It is not that AI is the contributing factor.

Cloudflare is transforming into yet another surveillance company.

I always see this "Cloudflare ensures you are not a bot" soon may change to "Cloudflare ensures you have a digital ID"

They will not need so many people for this and there will not exist competition to bring better products when people are fired massively and are crippled by financial problems.

AI for me is an excuse. Not the main issue.

It is a strategic transformation to ensure dominant position by killing off competition. Afterall employees are always viewed as threat.

Shameless title.

What the hell!? Cloudflare is absolutely killing it and now they're laying people off! I know some good people there with deep expertise and I hope they're not affected.

"AI will not replace you, it will just supercharge your existing capabilities."

"lol jk it will totally replace you, bye"

I would think cloudflare would benefit from all the vibe-coded apps as it is an easy target to deploy these on.

Did they find the vibecoding secret sauce?

I suspect that companies anticipate that AI prices are going to go way, way up, and they're going all-in on the current "cheap" credits before then.

I interviewed there over a month ago and they ghosted me after 3 good rounds. I dodged a bullet it seems.