You joke and I think its funny, but as a junior engineer I would be quite proud if some small change I made was able to take down the mighty Cloudflare.

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throwup238 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

If I were Cloudflare it would mean an immediate job offer well above market. That junior engineer is either a genius or so lucky that they must be bred by Pierson’s Puppeteers or such a perfect manifestation of a human fuzzer that their skills must be utilized.

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anvuong 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This reminds of a friend I had in college. We were assigned to the same group coding an advanced calculator in C. This guy didn't know anything about programming (he was mostly focused on his side biz of selling collector sneakers), so we assigned him to do all the testing, his job was to come up with weird equations and weird but valid way to present them to the calculator. And this dude somehow managed to crash almost all of our iterations except the few last ones. Really put the joke about a programmer, a tester, and a customer walk into a bar into perspective.

	▲	jrochkind1 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I love that he ended up making a very valuable contribution despite not knowing how to program -- other groups would have just been mad at him, had him do nothing, or had him do programming and gotten mad when it was crap or not finished.

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ethmarks 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

A Ringworld reference in the wild?

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throwup238 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I never thought I'd get the chance, but then my Claude Code on Web credits ran out and I had to find another way to entertain myself.

	▲	UltraSane 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Even after 20 projects I have only used $60 of my $250

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zarathustreal 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Internet points demand obscure references these days. My system prompt has its own area code

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methyl 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I kind of did that back in the days when they released Worker KV, I tried to bulk upload a lot of data and it brought the whole service down, can confirm I was proud :D

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amalcon 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's also not exactly the least common way that this sort of huge multi-tenant service goes down. It's only as rare as it is because more or less all of them have had such outages in the past and built generic defenses (e.g. automated testing of customer changes, gradual rollout, automatic rollback, there are others but those are the ones that don't require any further explanation).

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zidad 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You might want to consider migrating to Azure Front Door if that's a feature you like: https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/11/azure-afd-control-plane-f...

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aws_ls 8 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well its easy to cause damage by messing up the `rm` command, esp with `-fr` options. So don't take it as a proxy for some great skill which is required to cause damage.

	▲	ethmarks 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You could easily cause great damage to your Cloudflare setup, but CF has measures to prevent random customers deleting stuff from taking down the entire service globally. Unless you have admin access to the entire CF system, you can't really cause much damage with rm.

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