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[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

ugh I host my domains with them, but probably high time I switched away :/

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 15 points 4 hours ago

34% YoY revenue growth but that isn’t enough! We want your salary also! Raaaaawr

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 hours ago

Ah yes, the elimination of jobs is always good for society.

[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

so i have to boycott Cloudflare now?
but imma wait until more Sources cover this, i dont want to rely soly on the register.

[–] StillAlive@piefed.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Mwa@thelemmy.club -2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

alr thanks for linking their blog directly, am gonna wait a little to think am not gonna boycott them immediately.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 5 points 3 hours ago

wait for opinions

Wait for someone else to tell me how to feel?

[–] vane@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago

Useless company with useless services from silicon wankers.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

600% increase in ai agent usage cant be coincidence

[–] BlackCat@piefed.social 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

"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.

[–] Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

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"

[–] SunshineJogger@feddit.org 10 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 hours ago

Yes. We need more worker owned cooperatives.

[–] mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.org 4 points 10 hours ago

The halting problem is your friend. Have one agent review the work of another agent and then have trade places in an endless loop.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 21 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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

[–] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 113 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago (6 children)

JFC, this marketing speak makes me wanna slap someone. I’m not sure how you can so many words and so little.

[–] criss_cross@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

AI is shockingly good at doing just that.

I guarantee a human did not write this.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago
[–] StarryPhoenix97@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank.

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[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 81 points 1 day ago (4 children)

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

Meanwhile the employees:

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 63 points 1 day ago (3 children)

This is like measuring a carpenter’s work output by how much they use their hammer, not how much gets actually built. I hope every company that does this sorta bullshit goes belly up.

[–] tehn00bi@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

Wouldn’t it be like how often they use their measure tape?

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 25 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Using their hammer would be the tools they use to actually code. This is more like measuring a carpenter’s work by how often they get advice from the workers at Home Depot.

[–] dan@upvote.au 5 points 10 hours ago

If the company is only measuring token usage and not actual output, it's more like measuring a carpenter's work based on how many hammers they buy.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Yes.

But I do like that, by this measure, I have attained mastery of plumbing, woodworking, landscaping, and have become a master gardener.

[–] Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 hours ago

Me when I find a skill trainer in Skyrim

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 8 points 20 hours ago

They say you achieve mastery of a skill by spending 10,000 hours receiving advice from Hank over in Home & Garden.

[–] black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It strikes me that it's probably because of all the visibity it offers them into what people are doing and drives them to interact with the chatbot instead of each other. Not everything is about having productive workers. A lot of it is about finding people who are compliant suck ups who won't question the boss no matter what and eliminating anyone with a half a brain cell and an ounce of class solidarity.

[–] Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

It's about training their replacement. The more that they are forced to use it, the faster it will learn all of their jobs.

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[–] dhcmrlchtdj__@lemmy.world 11 points 21 hours ago

Everyone needs to stop twiddling their thumbs and organize their workplaces.

[–] vratajin@piefed.social 123 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 84 points 1 day ago (16 children)

Every company that fires people for AI is going to regret it so much in the long run...

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago

not if they all got thier golden parachutes, they treat it as an endgame, just run it like a PE firm and move on.

[–] OwOarchist@pawb.social 64 points 1 day ago

They've already had a spate of serious, unprecedented outages affecting half the internet.

So I guess that means the only place to go from there is to double down, eh?

the long run...

But....line go up for next quarter right?

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 36 points 1 day ago (5 children)

A bit ironic they offer a service to keep away AI bots from scanning websites, but say AI use is making them so productive they have to lay people off.

So AI bad or good? Getting whiplashed here.

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