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Cloudflare lays off 1,100 people(20% of staff) (blog.cloudflare.com)
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[–] Aceofspades@lemmy.ca 22 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Cloudflare’s usage of AI has increased by more than 600% in the last three months alone. 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.

Translation: Skip the AI and you might keep your job.

[–] NewOldGuard@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 days ago

I find it especially egregious that they'd use that metric as justification when most of these tech companies have internal LLM usage quotas you must hit lest you be reprimanded or fired. So you're forced to use the tool despite its garbage results, then that very same usage is quoted as reason for losing your job