You can “build for the future with AI” without laying people off. E.g.,:
• Help people build new skills
• Redesign roles and career paths around the new reality
• Give time, tools, and support to adapt
If a company like CloudFlare, with strong growth and 2B+ in ARR, can’t invest in helping its people evolve, it’s hard to see how trust survives.
Anyhow, I don’t think this is about building the future or adapting to AI. It’s about bad leadership: overhiring, poor planning, and treating staffing as a cost to cut instead of a responsibility to manage.
Bro, I got love for you so I’m not going to even go there. Folks are looking out for you and you don’t even realize it. Here you are making this kind of noise and it hasn’t even been a week since you lost a 3-1 lead. You’re HOME. A champion and a Finals MVP saying his favorite season is the season he’s home in the FIRST ROUND. This is not about ME. It’s about YOU….and what YOU SAID. Enjoy your offseason.