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Cloudflare to fire 1,100 staff whose jobs just aren’t AI enough
(www.theregister.com)
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this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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The MBAs have won.
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.
https://youtu.be/8Gv0H-vPoDc
Word Crimes by Weird Al.
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”.
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.