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I dislike the title because it doesn't clearly state it's a layoff. "Building for the future" gave me the impression that it's about some major new initiative w
by alyxya 4mo ago
I dislike the title because it doesn't clearly state it's a layoff. "Building for the future" gave me the impression that it's about some major new initiative with a roadmap outlining plans.
- strongpigeon 4mo agoI’ll never forget how when I was at Google, every email with subject line “An update on X” meant X was getting axed. Like, just say so in the subject line…
- FartyMcFarter 4mo agoIt got to the point where people were sarcastically posting "An update on <myself>" when sending goodbye emails.
- JustSkyfall 4mo agoIt's interesting how every time there's a layoff, the blog post always has a title like "Preparing for what's next" or "An update on our workforce" or "Getting ready for the agentic era"!
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- layer8 4mo agoThey should make it “Good news, everyone” like in Futurama.
- doggo_mate 4mo agoWelcome to the corporate world
- keybored 4mo agoTwo days ago: “Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%” (layoffs) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021368 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48021368
- rvz 4mo agoThis is what the true definition of "AGI" is.
- kristianp 4mo agoThe title should be something like "Cloudflare reducing workforce by more than 1,100 employees globally".
- dang 4mo agoYes, and such titles (whose purpose is to not say the thing) fall under "misleading" in https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. We've changed the title along with the URL - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058224 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48058224.
- wavemode 4mo agoMaybe I've become cynical and jaded, because when I saw the title I immediately thought to myself "oh, Cloudflare's announcing a layoff."
- operatingthetan 4mo agoThe corporate speak isn't working if people instantly know what it means!
- ceejayoz 4mo agoIt's like slurs; an ever-moving target.
- FeteCommuniste 4mo agoEven so, "Daddy needs a new yacht" might sound too insensitive.
- ignoramous 4mo ago> "Building for the future" gave me the impression that it's about some major new initiative... If you'll believe them, it indeed is: ... [the Leadership at Cloudflare] have to be intentional in how we architect our company for the agentic AI era ... reimagining every internal process, team, and role across the company. ... [This layoff is] not a cost-cutting exercise ... [but] Cloudflare defining how a world-class, high-growth company operates. ... We don't want to [mass layoff] again for the foreseeable future. ... [Cloudflare] cannot rest on the workflows and organizational structures that worked yesterday. We're confident that [Cloudflare] will be even faster and more innovative [after layoffs] ...
- dd8601fn 4mo agoThey're architecting their company for an agentic future? They're reimaginging the definition of a world-class, high-growth company? They're not resting on the workflows that worked yesterday? blegh What the hell does any of that actually mean? Like in real life words? Because that much corporate bullshit really sounds like it is a cost-cutting exercise.
- dang 4mo agoYes. We've since changed the top link to a third-party article. We prefer to do this with corporate press releases* - this is probably the #1 exception to HN's "please post the original source" rule (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). If anyone sees a better third-party article, we can change it again. (Edit: it's not really an exception because the purpose of a corporate press release is usually to obscure the main story, which means it's misleading, so by HN rules we should change it.) (Edit 2: I feel like I should add that this isn't specific to Cloudflare! It's literally a generic problem.) * https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sort=byDate&type=comment&query=corporate%20press%20release%20by:dang https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
- Imustaskforhelp 4mo agoThanks for changing this dang, I and all of us really appreciate the work that you do towards hackernews :-D Have a nice day!