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New comment by kgk9000 in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

kgk9000 — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:12:42 +0000

"We are reorganizing for the agentic AI era" reads better than "our gross margin is compressing, our SBC is too high, and our growth is decelerating." Both descriptions could be true; only one gets you a flattering blog post.

New comment by kgk9000 in "Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden"

kgk9000 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 02:32:12 +0000

I think the author's point is that each type of job will basically disappear roughly at once, shortly after AI crosses the bar of "good enough" in that particular field.

New comment by kgk9000 in "Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang (2022)"

kgk9000 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:34:08 +0000

The superpower of go is goroutines and channels. The kryptonite of go is its limited libraries. Go is a great choice for many concurrent applications. I couldn’t finish reading the article because it lacked focus.