I do not work in the space at all, but it seems like Cloudflare has been having more network disruptions lately than they used to. To anyone who deals with this sort of thing, is that just recency bias?
I could be quite the kernel developer if making the test green was the only criteria.
at which point the CVEs started to fly in
Management thinks AI tools should make everyone 10x as productive, so they're all trying to run lean teams and load up the remaining engineers with all the work. This will end about as well as the great offshoring of the early 2000s.
Auth for clients is also specified in the spec - there is some scope for homeservers to freestyle, but nowadays they have to implement OIDC: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#client-aut...
I would go so far as to say that you shouldnt be employed in the industry. Malicious actors like you will contribute to an erosion of trust thatll make everything worse
Don’t stop sabotaging AI efforts.
Using LLMs for software development is a safety hazard. It also has a societal risk, because it centralizes more data, more power, more money to tech oligarchs.
It's ethical to fight this. Still not commenting on legality.
Doing unethical things because someone pays you would still be unethical. Opposing those while someone pays you is still ethical.
(: phonetically, because 'l's are hard to read.
Even so, it is a strong reminder not to rely on any one vendor for critical stuff, in case that wasn't clear enough yet.
Seems like Matthew Prince didn't choose that route.
This is the key individual paradox: they can be a massive asset and make the impossible happen but if and when they leave you've got a real problem unless you can find another individual that is just as capable. Now, I do trust JGC to have created an organization that is as mature as it could be, but at the same time it is next to impossible to quantify your own effect on the whole because you lack objectivity and your underlings may not always tell you the cold hard truth for reasons all their own.
And in this case the problem is even larger: the experience collected by the previous guru does not transfer cleanly to the new one, simply because the new one lacks the experience of seeing the company go from being a tiny player to being a behemoth, and that's something you can do only once.
I've always been of the opinion that without JGC Cloudflare did not stand a chance, irrespective of those hundreds of developers. And that's before we get into things like goodwill.
And of those hundreds of developers you have to wonder how many see the writing on the wall and are thinking of jumping ship. The best ones always leave first.
I would not be surprised at all if this whole saga ends with Google, Microsoft or Amazon absorbing CF at a fraction of its current value.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
https://github.com/cloudflare/terraform-provider-cloudflare/...
even the blog, that used to be a respected source of technical content, has morphed into a garbage fire of slop and vaporware announcements since jgc left.
**everything breaks**
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**everything breaks again**
oh fuck! Code Orange! I repeat, Code Orange! we need to rebuild trust(R)(TM)! we've let our customers down!
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**everything breaks again**
Code Orangier! I repeat, Code Orangier!
cto can't even articulate a sentence without passing it through an LLM, and instead of doing his job he's posting the stupidest shit to his personal bootlicking chat channel. I cringe every time at the brown-nosers that inhabit that hovel.
no words for what the product org is becoming too. they should take their own advice a bit further and just replace all the leadership with an LLM, it would be cheaper and it's the same shit in practice
Just got to keep your head, remember it’s just a job and you get paid regardless. Clock in, clock out, do the work assigned to you but mentally just check out while you look for a new role
If I was a CF customer I would be migrating off now.
https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2025221270061580453
Rather than be driven by something rational like building a great product or making lots of money he is apparently driven by a desperate fear of being a dinosaur.
Regardless of how competent he is or isn’t as a technologist, a leader leading with fear is a recipe for disaster.
As a dev, you'll need to have those stuff in your knowledge toolbox
i think i care much more about our SLAs (if any)