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benjojo posted 08 May 2026 12:47 +0000

The Kagi LinkedIn translate is honestly a incredible marketing tool for them.

Throwing the Cloudflare layoff blog post into it and putting it through a few round trips as the "English" translation gets shorter and more frank

Everyone, We’re firing over 1,100 of you because we think AI can do your jobs for free and the shareholders are breathing down our necks. We’re calling this "innovation" and "agility" so we don't have to say "mass layoffs." It’s not that you’re bad at your jobs; it’s just that we’d rather have a higher profit margin than a staff. Matthew and I are going to pretend this is about "integrity" while we sit safely in our offices and watch your Slack access get cut off. Check your email to see if you still have a paycheck. We’re throwing some equity at you to keep you from suing us or making a scene while you figure out how to pay rent. The "scrappy" startup phase is over; now we’re just a cold corporation obsessed with the next earnings call. Cutting you loose is just "fiscal discipline" to make the numbers look better for the investors. To those of you we just screwed over: thanks for the free labor. Good luck out there. We’ll be bragging about our "leaner" team to the analysts later. For the survivors, see you at the meeting where we’ll explain how you now have to do three people's jobs for the same salary.