Rob Sutter

Lord help me I’m doing A Thing. A chapter a (work) day as I work through a few books on engineering management. Come follow along! robsutter.dev/posts/leader...

The people forcing AI into the world are so rich, they could employ as many people as they want for as long as they want to so whatever they want. BUT THEY ARE SCARED OF OTHER PEOPLE. That's why they're doing this. It's a critical failure of emotional intelligence.

AI is an employee who never says no, never talks back, and who has no emotions, so you're free to be an asshole to it without consequence. Certain men have been fantasizing about this for their whole lives. They will happily burn the world down to create it.

We've wanted to put Quicksilver in customers' hands for a long time now, and with this release we finally have! Workers KV Instant is built on top of Quicksilver, serves reads in around 2ms at p99, and pushes writes to every Cloudflare location in about 1/4 sec. blog.cloudflare.com/workers-kv-i...

> MongoDB is hiring a Senior Software Engineer on Benchmarking in Mexico. And I guess probably a CEO?

I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility

Influencers stop using "Pareto" challenge (difficulty: impossible)

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

There have always been humans who thought: 1) The world will end soon 2) It will happen in a cool, exciting way 3) It’ll happen to me personally 4) I’ll be a martyred prophet, or a warlord, or otherwise special 5) People who don’t see this are lesser “Sexy apocalypse” is a great phrase for that

For my next trick, I’d like to be employed again. :) 📍 Located in SF. 💼 I lead technical customer-facing teams inside GTM and/or Support in the dev tools space. 📋 prev: Clerk, Vercel bs: @codyogden.com

You can now scope access to individual Workers and assign narrower Developer Platform roles, so teammates, CI tokens, and agents get only the access they need to debug, deploy, or monitor safely. https://cfl.re/4xNVOqO

A lovely analysis of what makes human-made things last. www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-...

Can’t believe Natalie Merchant was a prophet all along.

A/B testing considered harmful.

I wrote about "performative reading," resentment, and how tech CEOs managed to make us so incurious, to their great benefit johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/on-perform...

You're going to get left behind if you don't use Al." Leave me then. Leave me with my critical thinking skills, my ability to read and write long- form, and books without needing Al summaries.

We are launching Workers Cache, a regionally tiered cache that sits directly in front of your Worker entrypoints. Infinitely composable, configured via standard HTTP headers. https://cfl.re/4bo49YW

‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios

Ford has rehired hundreds of senior engineers after replacing them with AI backfired and has cost the company billions of dollars. AI adoption is blamed for Ford being the most recalled automaker in the U.S. with 51 recalls covering over 11 million vehicles in the first half of 2026 alone.

The world of computing is and will remain far larger, more impactful, and far more vibrant than the narrow subdomain of genAI.

More than once I have heard techies in the EU lament that we are going to "lose the AI race". When I ask how that's measured, they say "Isn't it obvious?" No, it's not. Forcing the tech dev to slow down to consider the human and societal implications is a win. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)

I think this is a key insight about the AI psychosis we are seeing exhibited by big tech CEOs. The further you are away from the work, the more you assume it’s trivial for Claude or ChatGPT to replace the worker.

I was one of the 1100 impacted by yesterday's layoff at Cloudflare. Thankful that I had the opportunity to work on @radar.cloudflare.com over the past 4+ years, evolving it into a trusted industry resource. Would love to continue working with #Internet data in my next role...

Anybody else heading to Girona this week?

Announcing the private beta of Agent Memory, a managed service that extracts information from agent conversations and makes it available when it’s needed. Agent Memory allows agents to recall what matters, forget what doesn't, and get smarter over time. blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-...

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

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If you've run seaweedfs, versity, juicefs, beegfs, or rustfs—permissively-licensed s3-compatible storage systems— and are open to chatting about your experience, I'd like to chat with you for The Consensus.

Local Uploads on R2 reduces request duration for uploads by up to 75%. It writes object data to a nearby location and asynchronously copies it to your bucket, all while data is available immediately. https://cfl.re/3NQ4R8I

We are joining Cloudflare! astro.build/blog/joining...

Ouch. people-work.io/blog/junior-...

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

For Gen X part of why watching the unapproved & unpermitted destruction of the #WhiteHouse is so hard is the symbolism. We watched the Berlin wall fall, & remember elation and excitement that democracy and freedom were winning. This demonstration symbolizes the fall of our democracy and freedoms.

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

More than *anything* the people who actually know how technology works, who actually build things, wish that people would treat LLMs like every other technology, and be normal about them. Don't build a religion about them, don't force them on people, don't ignore the problems. Just be normal.

The appropriate historical analogy is radium, not the web. In this TED talk, I will

Let’s talk about AI art. theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.