Comment by piperswe
15 hours ago
Welp, looks like I’m affected. If anyone is looking to hire a systems engineer with distributed systems and load balancing experience, shoot me an email at <anything>@piperswe.me :/
I’ll update this with a resume link tonight…
Good luck, and if we can help at all, let us know.
Edit: this is a silly longshot, but please see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48057989.
CV link: https://piperswe.me/cv.pdf
pretty minor since the rest are fine but your linkedin link is broken
oh indeed it is! thanks for the heads up!
Firstly, kind sir, layoffs are hard for each and everyone of us and I wish you best as you navigate it. I know you will get many wishes and good lucks though but consider my wishes to be one of many to help ya out.
The who wants to be hired page is still open within Hackernews: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975570
I recommend if you can share your CV/send a message there, I will try to also keep an eye on it if you do share your CV/resume there and I would love to upvote your comment there to shower some more exposure/love from the community as you are member of hackernews. You are also part of the hackernews community and its the least that I/we can do.
:hug:
I just read your CV and looked at your LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pswe/
Do you have a undergraduate degree? It is unclear from your CV/LI. If not, now is a great time to get one.
Seems like a somewhat traditional suggestion with a potentially massive financial and time commitment. Not that it's not something to do, but why do you think that's the move right now, especially since they're clearly established in their career and nobody cares about it after a few years?
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When someone has already demonstrated they can do the work, what additional value do you think them getting a degree will bring to a company?
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Dropped you a email, we have openings for SREs
I’m curious, what was your AI usage and output like?
That sucks, and the market is too bleak for empty platitudes.
This just sucks, period.
Take care of yourself until you land something. I'll keep this in mind if anything comes through my grapevine.
https://x.com/mgill25/status/2052639259924844894?s=20
Good luck, I'm sure you will find a great role!
You probably have other stuff on your mind right now, thus I can understand if you are not in the mood for answering, but I‘m too curious to not ask:
According to the Reuters article, AI use has increased 6x over only three months. How did that feel from the inside? I’m especially curious because Cloudflare is not a toy company, and this is not about some influencer trying to sell me their latest „this changes everything“ bullshit.
So, shifting a company significantly towards agentic AI, and I assume this isn’t simply about „install Claude Code on every desk“: would you say it actually works? Or would you say it’s still more of a bet, and still needs to prove itself as a sustainable long-term strategy?
Interested as well!
I work at a similar scale company. Like an average person's experience, some things are amazing and super productive with AI and some things aren't. And it's not always the same things all the time.
Sometimes we are able to do a ground up rewrite of a service and squeeze huge efficiency gains out of it all bc AI is helpful in doing so and we have a very good test harness.
Sometimes it makes subtly wrong suggestions that people follow and cause outages.
Sometimes it leads to huge headaches for devs who have to review huge backlogs of code with no idea which parts are serious and which are low effort AI slop.
Sometimes it lets you do a 2 month project in 2 weeks.
good luck and take care of yourself!
Dude, you have the most amazing name ever. Hope you know that.
Goodluck mate