Two weeks ago I laid off more than 20% of my workforce. I didn’t do it because Cloudflare is struggling. We posted record revenue growth, have strong free cash flow and are adding an unprecedented number of customers around the world.

And since we are doing so great let’s fire 20% of our workforce because obviously they were not a factor in our success. Besides what could possibly go wrong firing 1/5 of our company. Is not like there is lots of tribal knowledge that AI won’t be able to figure out.

My take on the article

• If it was written by AI, the author should have done a manual pass to simplify it and make it more approachable
• If it was not written by AI, the author should probably have asked AI to review for readability

Either way, the article was done in such a way that it is hard to read. It also misses

• Why should I care about this?
• Why does this matter?

At least those things were missing early on in the article. I scanned through it, but the article did not seem to take into account explaining why one should spend cycles reading this.