alt Hacker News> Cloudflare’s usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone.
It seems only costs increased. If productivity had increased along with the AI costs they wouldn't need to layoff.
Of couse, this is all bullshit. Making a vague gesture at AI makes it sound like the layoffs are positive.
Truth is this is simply cost cutting. Either due to overhiring in the past, or bracing for the likely economic downturn.
>It seems only costs increased. If productivity had increased along with the AI costs they wouldn't need to layoff.
Thing is average employee skill level is low. And entirely replaced by something like GPT 5.5
People have egos and people have "phases" in life. A 10x person isn't productive for all years of their life.
They've periods of high performance, periods of low performance, depression, etc.
Above all, communication overhead is the biggest bottleneck in product development and information withholding and asymmetry.
This makes AI far better because it can simply write all its findings to a file, which you can revisit later.