Comment by augusteo
6 hours ago
Technical blogs from infrastructure companies used to serve two purposes: demonstrate expertise and build trust. When the posts start overpromising, you lose both.
I don't know enough about this specific implementation to say whether "implemented Matrix" is accurate or marketing stretch. But the pattern of "we did X" blog posts that turn out to be "we did a demo of part of X" is getting tiresome across the industry.
The fix is boring: just be precise about what you built. "We prototyped a Matrix homeserver on Workers with these limitations" is less exciting but doesn't erode trust.
To be fair, the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful.
Usually. Previously.
I raised this point on a previous Cloudflare blog post - they've turned quite vapid these days. If you pay attention, they're stuffed to the brim with generated text which is sloppy and under-opinionated on the audience for the writing in the first place.
Yeah normally the CF blog ranks as one of the best in the world in my book, so a post of lower quality and potentially AI slop really stands out here.
That said I think the concept of a full matrix server running all on CF infrastructure/services is an awesome blog post from CF.
Honestly I wish CF would simply unpublish/retract this blog post, put another engineer on it to help the PM, and spend another couple of weeks polishing the post/code to republish the same blog post.
Even acknowledging that blunder and the lost of trust that could have followed for such sloppy work would be a minimum.
I am quite shocked by such lack of care, and it does tarnish the reputation of Cloudflare in my eyes :/
That's demonstrating expertise
They can't do that though. If they did, it would make the shareholders and CEOs mad because it would demonstrate that LLMs cannot (yet) deliver on all the promises these CEOs have been claiming for this entire time.