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Technical blogs from infrastructure companies used to serve two purposes: demonstrate expertise and build trust. When the posts start overpromising, you lose bo

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.

palata 8mo ago
To be fair, the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful.
- direwolf20 8mo ago
  That's demonstrating expertise
- Spunkie 8mo ago
  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.
  - Signez 8mo ago
    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 :/
- oasisbob 8mo ago
  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.
ethin 8mo ago
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.
wlonkly 8mo ago
There was a third purpose (or perhaps a combination of those two): recruiting. There is a lot less recruiting happening these days.

palata 8mo ago

To be fair, the technical posts from Cloudflare are usually very insightful.

direwolf20 8mo ago
That's demonstrating expertise
Spunkie 8mo ago
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.
- Signez 8mo ago
  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 :/
oasisbob 8mo ago
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.

ethin 8mo ago

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.

wlonkly 8mo ago

There was a third purpose (or perhaps a combination of those two): recruiting. There is a lot less recruiting happening these days.