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If AI made Cloudflare more productive, the layoffs are the wrong move

Cloudflare laid off 1,100 people (20% of workforce), citing AI-driven productivity gains, but the real driver is financial margin pressure. The layoffs risk destroying institutional knowledge and customer confidence. The author, a Cloudflare partner, argues the move is a cost-cutting measure disguised as a strategic pivot to the 'agentic AI era'.

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If AI made Cloudflare more productive, the layoffs are the wrong move
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  • Cloudflare layoffs framed as AI-driven restructuring but actually stem from declining margins and slowing growth.
  • Senior engineers and load-bearing staff were cut, endangering platform reliability.
  • The company hired 1,111 interns eight months prior, indicating a pattern of replacing high-cost labor with cheap labor.
  • Author will continue using Cloudflare but revises confidence in future improvement.

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