“we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers”
God, I hate corpo-speak so much.
I recently had to listen to our glorious CEO (who totally isn’t a nepo failson) about the company being bought out (so yeah I’m getting fired within 2 years for sure) and it was just him furiously jacking off, thinking he sounded smart with all of his ivy corpo speak.
At a certain point I was like “you know, maybe violence IS the answer”
Sounds to me they will be charging more for their services. Or do I need to purposely misunderstand the statement to be useless?
34% YoY revenue growth but that isn’t enough! We want your salary also! Raaaaawr
That tracks. Cloudflare was probably overdue to make a good solid run at grabbing defeat out of the jaws of success.
Edit: Hijacking this to answer the question on some of our minds:
“What was the name of that open source alternative I was able to ignore while CloudFlare was actually doing their job?”
It’s Anubis
Ah yes, the elimination of jobs is always good for society.
ugh I host my domains with them, but probably high time I switched away :/
edit: and done! switched to a local host :)
So much greed.
No wonder most of us give a fuck about our company. Why should I care if I am nothing more than a number that is unfortunately not a robot.
Working could be to just create something good and do so in a community with like minded people. And if it earns enough money to pay everyone’s comfortable life needs then that is enough.
That they constantly force growth is just the most toxic bullshit imaginable.
Yes. We need more worker owned cooperatives.
Everyone needs to stop twiddling their thumbs and organize their workplaces.
Useless company with useless services from silicon wankers.
Jokes on them I’ve been training ai to seize the means of production
The halting problem is your friend. Have one agent review the work of another agent and then have trade places in an endless loop.
Perpeetum token machine
so i have to boycott Cloudflare now?
but imma wait until more Sources cover this, i dont want to rely soly on the register.alr thanks for linking their blog directly, am gonna wait a little to think am not gonna boycott them immediately.
wait for opinions
Wait for someone else to tell me how to feel?
oh wait…that shitty service that thousands of people complained about is doing something even worse?!
well I’ll just boycott them when it’s convenient…
600% increase in ai agent usage cant be coincidence
Less money for middle class and more money for investors owning Nvidia, OpenAI, Anthropic.
Make no mistake about what’s happening, that’s wealth transfer from the bottom to the top.And with how this particular AI technology only works by consuming all of the internet’s and our libraries’ data … it’s not just a transfer, it’s pretty much theft.
and it still cant make anything good out of that slop.
Interestingly, I don’t think I share this sentiment.
I’m no fan and personally don’t use AI (I barely touched it early ChatGPT days). But people use it to do things in successful fulfilment of their initial purpose.
I’ve seen it. Maybe I’ve seen the successes and not the failures in some cases. And I’ve certainly seen badly failed attempts to use it, but in those cases I’m happy to ascribe the failure substantially to a misapplication of the tool (which to be fair certainly invites gross misapplication).
My point though is that I don’t think an absolutist “AI is never useful” position is persuasive any more nor absolutely accurate.
Which, in my view, makes addressing the “rest of the situation” all the more fundamental. Indeed, I think everything g other than its efficacy was always the important part.
Part of the problem is that ethical arguments are difficult for people and many just switch off when it comes to the common good. Which is all of course part of the problem too.
But I think that’s gravity of the situation right now: our collective instincts may be misaligned for the moment. Our personal habits vulnerable from our prior corruptions. And our societal architectures already mutated, perhaps beyond repair, and therefore ill equipped for this.
Doomy, yes, but you’ve got to fight the fight you’re in, not the one you’d wish you’d won.
Another way I could put this counter, is that I feel like so much of what’s bad about AI was bad before AI, and that society from 2005-2020 badly mishandled technology. Whether AI “works” or not doesn’t matter. So long as it can fit into the same shape and meet the same urges that tech did 2005-2020, it will be adopted. But if the consequences of its adoption are graver than what came before, then the whole stack of that history needs to be addressed.
One of the problems the anti-AI crowd have with protrsting this use case is that they don’t seem to appreciate that the enshittification happened long before AI.
Actual Software Engineers make up about 5% of the profession, the other 95% have been turning out slop that they don’t even understand themselves for years. In that environment, an AI that does the same but at least doesn’t complain when asked to do rework doesn’t seem so bad.
Funny, this is the same cloudflare that harasses me every time I open a new tab on certain websites to check that I’m not a bot…
How ironic…
“works” is a bit too strong
Not even investors. Majority shareholders/BoD.
Uhh… All shareholders get wealthier when the stock price goes up, there’s no magic mechanism where it’s only majority shareholders.
Obviously majority shareholders will make even more, but they all profit from it. I’m not even American and my retirement fund jumped up decently from the S&P 500 going up. Though now I’ve exited from the US ETFs completely. Only Europe and Asia now.
Pennies or a few hundred vs millions was the point.
we have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era in order to supercharge the value we deliver to our customers
🤮
The MBAs have won.
What did they win? If that works, they were right and deserved to get their way. If it doesn’t, thousands more jobs will disappear as they figure out how they ended up in this metaphorical smoking crater.
If you like spoilers, its going to be the latter.
JFC, this marketing speak makes me wanna slap someone. I’m not sure how you can so many words and so little.
AI is shockingly good at doing just that.
I guarantee a human did not write this.
I guarantee you, managers, sales teams and PR firms have been writing copy like this since the first company was started. Unfortunately, LLM is just reducing the amount of typing a human has to do.
Word Crimes by Weird Al.
So little what? SO LITTLE WHAT???
why, torgo’s executive powder
I suppose, “write so many words and yet say so little”? Or less awkwardly, “say so little with so many words”.
Don’t you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.
Well shit. My ADHD brain leaves out words all the time. It was supposed to be “say so little”.
