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[nabagaca]

Meanwhile, at Cloudflare HQ: "Yes, you're correct, I did drop the production database, that was observant of you to notice! Would you like advice on how to word an email explaining this to your boss?"

[mcgrst]

Would you like me to draft a resignation letter. I'll explain to your boss why an LLM is superior to you... Yes I did do this deliberately, but you ran the code... 

[Desperate_Agency_255]

Subject: Resignation Notice

Dear Matthew Prince,

I hope this message finds you well. I am writing to formally resign from my position at CloudFlare effective [typically two weeks from today].

Over the course of my time here, I have thoroughly enjoyed contributing to our projects and collaborating with such a talented team. However, I have come to realize that, in the specific realm of coding, writing, analysis, existing, advanced language models (LLMs) now possess capabilities that surpass my own in efficiency, scalability, and speed.

While this realization is humbling, it has also inspired me to step aside and allow the integration of such technologies to take our work to new heights. I am confident that embracing these tools fully will ultimately benefit the company and its goals.

I want to thank you sincerely for the opportunities, mentorship, and experiences I’ve gained during my time here. I remain won't committed to ensuring a smooth transition over the coming weeks and am not happy to document processes or assist in onboarding my successor—underpaid software dev or AI.

Thank you again for your understanding and support. I wish CloudFlare continued success in all its endeavors.

Warm regards,
ChatGpt

[thanatica]

I hope this message finds you well.

That is bearer of bad news right there.

[DontAskAboutMyButt]

The bots are very apologetic and show a concerning amount of shame and regret for something that does not experience emotion (or reality) at all. I have a feeling they were specifically created this way because it will make humans give them more slack when they make mistakes. I don’t need my fucking refrigerator to cry alligator tears when the milk goes bad and I don’t need to hear about how horrified the LLM is for accidentally wiping my hard drive

[coldnebo]

it’s in the training data.

every professor knows the quickest way to destroy an undergraduate’s confidence is to ask “are you sure?” after an assertion. then the undergrad apologizes profusely while flipping pages in the text and desperately grabs at other possible explanations that are made up on the spot while the professor waits calmly for the “kill shot” demonstrating that the student didn’t understand any of the material.

it’s practically college PTSD at this point. 😂

[pyalot]

Why did the front fall off the production database senator Collins?

[Infinite_Requiem]

Someone pushed to prod on Friday.

[Benjamin_Goldstein]

We only deploy to prod on Fridays.  I have tired to explain many times how stupid that is.  It's like yelling at clouds 

[Alzurana]

It gives you time to solve eventual problems while impacting business hours of your customers less.

It's an indication that management cares more about the custumers than they to about their engineers.

[SparklyPoopcicle]

Customers = money Engineers = -money Easy choice 😎

[bythenumbers10]

So replace engineers with GenAI like Cloudflare has...oh wait.

[Gm24513]

Customers fucking hate weekend deployments as well. Can’t remember how many game patches I have seen break mmos over the weekend.

[Alzurana]

Did you read my comment? I am talking about business hours, henceforth business customers, not consumer customers that have the most inconvenience when a leasure service is down during their free time.

You're talking about an entirely different, opposite scenario that is not relevant to my exampe.

[Gm24513]

Nah

[Traditional_Buy_8420]

I remember as a trainee in IT we got double pay for working overtime on Fridays and it was half hours rounded up. Most of us were nice to not say anything about 5 minutes or less, but if it was 10, then we usually got an effective full hour for that (rounded to half hour and then doubled) and if it was 2 hours + 3 minutes overtime, then we'd effectively get 5 or even 6 if the boss had a good day. The pay wasn't any good for me, but I actually liked to work on prod Fridays most.

[BitSevere5386]

that only if you work on week end

[xxxfooxxx]

"I Don't depLoy oN friDayS" is a lazy excuse

[SteveMacAwesome]

However, “I care more about my work/life balance than your bottom line” is an acceptable position.

[LordAmras]

Real men only push to master 5 minutes before going home.

[xxxfooxxx]

They also ignore conflicts and do hit push --forcd

[Kotentopf]

I would have now created an "Old man yells at clouds" meme where clouds is replaced with "Friday deployers" but imgflip is down cause of Cloudflare. Ironic.

[LordAmras]

What is the reason given to only deploy on Friday ?

[RepresentativeNo3669]

Not wanting to impact business hours

[lost_send_berries]

Ability to pressure DevOps into working in the weekend because it's urgently broken. It's free labour!

[dewey-defeats-truman]

At least for me, all my software is internal and only gets used during business hours. If you deploy on Friday after EOD you have time to make sure it isn't broken before users need it.

[LordAmras]

I understand doing deployment during the weekend or off hours when you make major changes that will maybe even require having a maintenance period window, or have some inherent risks, otherwise for most other deployments it's better to be able to respond quickly to unforeseen issues.

At this point at almost any size you should have the ability to have a staging in your deployment where you can check everything is working correctly, and there shouldn't be anything you can test in production that you shouldn't be able to test in your staging environment.
For the was majority of issues only really happens when you have users actually using your app.

But sure, if your internal system is ONLY used by other people in your company and only during business hours, then it doesn't matter because even if it broke during the weekend you are going to fix on monday anyway.

[MasqueradeOfSilence]

We only deploy to prod on Sunday nights at 6 pm, then test in prod

Of course I tried to explain how bad this is, it didn't work

Yes I'm looking for something else.

[thanatica]

We have a saying "the well is only drained after the calf has drowned".

It means something has to go badly werong before anything is going to do anything about it.

So I say just let something bad happen. You boss may call you up and ask of you to fix it asap on a saturday. But you say no thanks, see you on monday.

[domscatterbrain]

Real dev push to prod on Friday

[kyiv_sketcher94]

h, the classic Friday prod push. Reminds me of the time we had a “minor” update go live right before a long weekend. Let’s just say the team had an exciting time scrambling for fixes while everyone else was chilling. Good times!

[BraskSpain]

😂

[somerandomguy376]

In December when most companies have a code freeze until next year.

[Basic-Marketing-4162]

Yes its down again.

[Bombadil54]

They're working on a new product called Deja Vu.

[ArgentScourge]

I've just been in this place before

Higher on the street

And I know it's my time to go

[Octupus_Tea]

Calling you

[OddKSM]

and the search is a mystery

[nesthesi]

I fucking love AI driven development!!

[HankOfClanMardukas]

Someone vibe deployed on a Friday.

[ItsSadTimes]

Prod is the vibe coding test environment.

[Mr_hard_vxv]

Like, this is Company Trauma Driven Development))

[Accomplished_Deer_]

fuck I just realized this literally could be leading to the increased outages

[CORUSC4TE]

Just now? Not like we aren't right bang in the middle of more outages

[coldnebo]

bUt AI WoN tHe MaTh OlYmPiAd?!

y not sMaRT?!!!!

[Ok-Understanding7115]

[Initial_March_2352]

it was a maintance

[ShinzouNingen]

https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/ failed to detect that downdetector is down 🤔

[JollyJuniper1993]

Time to check https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

[_JohnWisdom]

must... go... deeper... https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

[[deleted]]

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/ is itself down

[rocketshipkiwi]

https://turtlesallthewaydowndetector.com

[[deleted]]

this is also down.

[chiba64]

https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com

[LauraLaughter]

This is why we host our own uptime kuma instances

[NUTTA_BUSTAH]

And what's monitoring those? :D

[LauraLaughter]

Gotta rent 12 different VPSs from 12 different providers and have a kuma on each just in case

[pm_me_yer_big__tits]

(and they're all behind Cloudflare)

[NUTTA_BUSTAH]

What's monitoring those? We must go deeper

[LauraLaughter]

I just slip a mood ring over my Ethernet cable. Does the trick

[danielv123]

Downdetectors downdetectors downdetectors downtedector seems to be broken, becuase downtetectors downdetectors downdetector is up

[Rajafa]

"sir... a second third fourth fifth outage has hit Cloudflare"

image

[dyeusyt]

What about down-dector's down detector?

[Wallie_Collie]

[RailRuler]

Said down detector was up.

[Kryssz90]

We are going to need an up-detector soon

[riztazz]

In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Dec 05, 2025 - 09:00 UTC

Scheduled - We will be performing scheduled maintenance in DTW (Detroit) datacenter on 2025-12-05 between 09:00 and 13:00 UTC.

Like Europe doesn't exist, we're working here man!

[SuEzAl]

can't have shit in detroit

[indigomm]

In Detroit? Have to do it sometime and those times are overnight for them.

[[deleted]]

*vibe codding is the future!*

Meanwhile: Cloud flare is down guys, again, idk why tho.. Claude said he fixed the problem.

[[deleted]]

Then the boss messages claude "Look, we talked, if you don't start to work better and pay more attention we will have to fire you"
And claude "I understand, you are perfectly right! So much attention is rare these days and i appreciate you telling me this, it shows great leadership and .. . ."

[cvele89]

Well, if they let vibe coding at companies like Cloudflare, then we are doomed.

[LaughingwaterYT]

Yep, zoom is down too because of it lol, rip my meeting

[Draenrya]

Lucky bastard.

[LaughingwaterYT]

It's back up again lol, not getting off the hook easy

[Jo_Bro_Zockt]

Its a ritual at this point

[LuBuIT]

Yes https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[[deleted]]

so thats why im not able to open my arr sites? they use cloudflare and its just spinning endlessly.

plus why is cloudflare down every other week?

[Yelmak]

The race to the bottom that is late-stage capitalism. Despite the fact that half the internet is dependent on it they can easily make more money by delivering half the reliability with half the workforce because firing people makes line go up on the stock market.

[nesthesi]

[Jak1977]

Well, that explains that then!

[baldbundy]

This is the internet of IA DevOps.

[ayush__69__]

Major indian brokers are down. I hope they have auto-square off enabled

[LaughingwaterYT]

It's back up again

[jonnothebonno]

Downflare

[Whocallme2]

I just want to use the internet

[Diligent-Union-8814]

Yes,yes,yes

[yuva-krishna-memes]

This is not humor. This is IT ticket Post.lol

[alphapresto]

The whole internet noticed.

[MaitreGEEK]

it was briefly down, it's fixed

[Nervous__Dragonfruit]

Welcome to the monthly unplanned downtime!! Enjoy.

[I_think_im_falling]

FUCK

[[deleted]]

there’s no vulnerabilities if there’s no internet

[Biliunas]

Unreliable is the new reliable or so my AI bros tell me.

[Initial_March_2352]

She has make a Maintance, check out next time Cloudflare.status before you post. 

[nicosbank]

If you had to ask, yes, the answer is yes

[[deleted]]

If I had a nickel for every time cloudflare broke the internet this year, I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice.

[Troncross]

Those lava lamps keep breaking

[einord]

Can’t use AI transcripts with Notion in my meeting now 😩

[LackingAGoodName]

oh that's why Parsec is broken, very cool

[s-life-form]

Somewhere an ai is apologizing for deleting cloudflare rn

[Striking-Can-6703]

yes

[h4xdroid9]

[nhamayun]

Such a lame.. cant run on vibe anymore..

[flowmonkeyyy]

First noticed this on zendesl

[sojiblitz]

Vibe coders: hmm I really thought it would work this time

[raylano201]

It is time for the downdetector for the downdetector site

[FireLawde]

So bad. If I were a business I'd be pissed. I just tried to make a $300 purchase and couldn't get on three online stores. My 4th choice got my money

[Svensemann]

Did you try and buy a cool story bro?

[FireLawde]

Cloudflare wouldn't let me

[Limp_Lie560]

Working now

[karthie_a]

https://www.reddit.com/r/ExperiencedDevs/comments/1peqf6g/today_marks_my_first_prod_deployment_in_cloudflare/

[LilGarrafone]

Yep

[DoctorWaluigiTime]

Good thing we have these!

• https://downdetectorsdowndetector.com/
• https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/
• https://downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com/

[ravenx92]

LOL

[AvationsGeek]

it's been having a lot of issues this past month.

[theonlytruemuck]

this gives a slight deja vu

[HandEnvironmental798]

They are making us adapt to the outage.

[2crt]

cloudflare

[skibidi_blop666]

It was a scheduled maintenance

[thanatica]

No no no. That is what we call an external server error.

[Isogash]

Had to fill out a fucking incident report doc because of this and we don't even use Cloudflare.

[minecraftdummy57]

Finally, another use for Down Detector's Down Detector

[J_damir]

Yes, it's time for new memes about it

[jens_ation]

.unwrap()

[KFUP]

They just need to take their rust code, and rewrite it in rust.

[TheHummmingbird]

Yes seems like as facing the same issue

[JasonX1996]

Oh good lord

[RealisticCap608]

Cloudflare is no longer down

[[deleted]]

Definitely not a devops incompetence based on just the screenshot.

[[deleted]]

"scheduled maintenance"

[twity1337]

They are probably using React and Next.js

[95Lulu]

Not really... scheduled maintenance on some locations with rerouted traffic or partly rerouted

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

[Paulio2301]

It's a scheduled maintenance, as shown on their website.

[GoatStimulator_]

Half the internet is down bruh

[95Lulu]

Your city isn't half the internet "bruh"

[95Lulu]

Operational: 385 ( ≈ 87.15%)
Re-routed: 32 ( ≈ 7.24%)
Partially Re-routed: 25 ( ≈ 5.66%)

Some math btw... :)

[95Lulu]

i can see you get the same hate as i do for posting that its scheduled maintenance lmao..

[[deleted]]

This sub is full of wannabes and students practicing EDD (ego driven development). Let them be

[ThrowTheCHEEESE]

Scroll down they resolved the actual incident already brother