Cloudflare: When AI Runs the Internet
125 words • 1 min readREBUILDING FOR AI
Cloudflare, a giant internet infrastructure company, just fired over 1,100 employees. This is 20% of their global team.
The CEO, Matthew Prince, said this is not a move to save money. Instead, the company is completely changing its structure for the "agentic AI era." Cloudflare saw its internal AI usage jump by 600% in just three months. Workers in every department are now using AI agents to do their daily tasks.
Because AI agents are doing so much heavy lifting, Cloudflare decided they no longer need large human teams. Even the companies that build the internet are trading humans for software.
Status: 1,100 Jobs Cut | Trend: Agentic Infrastructure Source: Cloudflare to cut over 1,100 jobs as AI boosts productivity