Jamie Lord is a Solution Architect at CDS, building multi-tenant SaaS applications with C#, Cloudflare, Azure and AWS.
“I am not blaming the innovation. I am blaming the chaos of innovation. Everything feels DISJOINTED.” That’s the author of “Cloudflare’s AI psychosis”, on Hacker News this weekend, after the essay reached the front page. The essay itself is wider and angrier than that. Cloudflare used to be boring infrastructure run by engineers and is now a product-management organisation with a posting habit;…
The strangest thing in the Cloudflare OS source code took me a while to understand.
There is a gap in one of my paintings, near the top-left where the brush ran out before it reached the edge, and through the gap you can see a photograph. Not a painted impression of a photograph — the photograph, blurred, pixel for pixel, sitting underneath the paint like a watermark.
Cyrus Lopez published an essay last week, ‘The Last People Who Know How It Works’, and it’s the best thing I’ve read about computing this year. It mourns an intimacy with machines that he thinks is ending: the boot disk built for one game, the IRQ jumper set with a fingernail, the modem handshake you could diagnose by ear before the line dropped. His case is that competence is safe, because the…
Claude Fable 5 was in public hands for about three days before Anthropic took it back. Nothing was wrong with the model. The block came from a US demand Anthropic couldn’t meet: keep non-US nationals away from it, including the ones living in America. Rather than build that wall, the company pulled the model outright. A week later OpenAI previewed GPT-5.6 to a short list of partners it had cleared…
This week I stood at a primary school careers fair, on what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the year so far, and tried to convince children between the ages of four and eleven that software development is the best job in the world. I had a stand, a looping deck of slides, a board of brand logos, and a game I had built for them to play. By the end of the day my shirt was stuck to my…
The Dutch government today blocked Kyndryl’s acquisition of Solvinity, the IT company that operates DigiD. DigiD is the digital identity system roughly fourteen million Dutch citizens use to file their tax returns, book GP appointments, and pay municipal bills. The block came under the Act on Undesirable Control in Telecommunications, WOZT in Dutch, on advice from the Investment Screening Bureau.…
At about half past eleven one evening this week I noticed a US Navy E-6B Mercury orbiting over the North Sea. Not “noticed” in the way of someone who happened to look up — I was on the sofa with a laptop balanced on one knee, and the orbit was being drawn for me, in slow careful circles, by a dashboard I had been building, in evenings and weekends, for the previous eight days. The aircraft is a…
Cloudflare’s Project Glasswing write-up landed today and the Hacker News thread is mostly arguing about whether the prose was written by Mythos or by Opus. It is a fair complaint and an irrelevant one. The diagram halfway down the page is the actual deliverable, and almost nobody is talking about it.
Cloudflare laid off more than 1,100 people yesterday, around 20% of the company. The announcement, titled ‘Building for the Future’, explains the cuts by noting that internal AI use is up 600% in three months and the company needs to ‘architect itself for the agentic AI era’. The stock dropped 15-18% in after-hours trading.