Cloudflare Just Published a Vibe-Coded Blog Post Claiming They Implemented Matrix on Workers (they didn't)
A Cloudflare program manager published a blog post today announcing a "production-grade Matrix homeserver" running on Workers. People were excited until they started reading the code. Misaligned ASCII diagram in the readme. Todo's scattered throughout. Authentication that doesn't authenticate. Typically signs of Claude Code when you don't go too far past the "build this thing for me".
He built it using AI, which is fine, just about everyone is doing that. But the problem is.. he shipped the LLM's output without reading it, like at all -_-
The readme and blog post called the code production-grade. The blog claimed that the Cloudflare team was using it internally for real encrypted communications. No human wrote or read these lines. Claude Code seemingly took care of all that, not him. But instead of attributing Claude Code for it all, this project went out under his name and somehow landed on the official Cloudflare blog.
Once HN caught on to the Mastodon thread, the scramble started. TODOs deleted, git history amended, blog post edited multiple times to walk back claims he probably never intended to make.
One guy having a bit of a goof with AI isn't the story here. No, the story is that nobody at Cloudflare actually read what they were publishing. They made over 2 billion in revenue last year, serving as a reverse proxy for over 20% of the internet's webpages. Yikes.. Idk about you guys, but I think this 3-4 month run for Cloudflare has been pretty rough. There are definitely some smart people there but the careless flubs that keep happening make me rather concerned for the large amount of data that's running through their pipes.
So anyways, what do you think should happen to him? Should Cloudflare issue an apology here? Maybe one of their classic breakdowns heh.
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This blog post explains the process of building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver using Cloudflare Workers. It details how the traditional components of a Matrix homeserver, like PostgreSQL and Redis, were replaced with Cloudflare's primitives such as D1, KV, and Durable Objects. The post highlights the benefits of this approach, including lower costs, reduced latency, and built-in security features like post-quantum cryptography. The implementation also supports the full Matrix end-to-end encryption stack and uses Cloudflare's global distribution to improve performance for users worldwide.
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