Around 20 percent of staff get an ‘In one hour, you might not work here anymore’ email
  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    30 minutes ago

    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…

  • kazerniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    3 hours ago

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

    edit: and done! switched to a local host :)

  • Mwa@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    51·
    10 hours ago

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

  • BlackCat@piefed.socialEnglish
    39·
    16 hours ago

    “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.

    • benjirenji@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      6 hours ago

      Sounds to me they will be charging more for their services. Or do I need to purposely misunderstand the statement to be useless?

    • Ophrys@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      10 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”

  • vane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    71·
    12 hours ago

    Useless company with useless services from silicon wankers.

  • SunshineJogger@feddit.orgEnglish
    141·
    16 hours ago

    So much greed.

    Bo 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.

  • mokey@therock.fraggle-rock.orgEnglish
    5·
    16 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.zipEnglish
    24·
    8 hours 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.worksEnglish
    124·
    1 day ago

    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.

    • benjirenji@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      6 hours ago

      … or to get all these cupcake recipes. If all that matters not to get fired is active agents…

    • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
      70·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • binarytobis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        1 day ago

        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.auEnglish
          7·
          16 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.zipEnglish
          5·
          1 day ago

          Yes.

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

      • black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        20·
        1 day ago

        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.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 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.

    • criss_cross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      Having AI do your commits is a great way to game the system. Gives the added benefit of making it look like the AI wrote it for you as well.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        1·
        16 hours ago

        Just add a co-authored-by line to your commit message to make it look like the AI wrote it.

        • criss_cross@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 hours ago

          But that doesn’t burn tokens. Comps can track how many tokens you use.

          Yes it’s that dystopian.

  • vratajin@piefed.socialEnglish
    141·
    2 days ago

    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.

    • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
      49·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        7 hours ago

        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…

        • maegul (he/they)@lemmy.mlEnglish
          6·
          15 hours ago

          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.

          • Tim@lemmy.snowgoons.roEnglish
            3·
            11 hours ago

            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.

      • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        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.