| ▲ | fny 6 hours ago |
| That should have been the announcement. The article posted buries the lead. Cloudflare OS reads like almost any other AI knowledge base until midway when apps are introduced and then becomes overly technical with a code snippet. |
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| ▲ | kentonv 6 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| We really struggled with how to present this to multiple audiences at once. My tweet thread, and the GitHub readme, is really the presentation intended for the HN crowd. The blog post is for a different audience. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os |
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| ▲ | philistine 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | > The blog post is for a different audience. No one? Like literally, I don't understand a thing of what the blog post is saying. It's vague to the point of meaning nothing. Every piece of text I've seen that explains CloudflareOS is clear except the blog post. | | |
| ▲ | QuantumNoodle 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I used to read their blog regularly because it had lots of interesting technical details. Lately, though, there’s less of that, and I can’t quite put my finger on what changed. My guess is that they realized how popular the blog had become and started using that attention more for advertising. There’s nothing wrong with that, but earlier the “advertisements” actually made me want to try things out and bring them back to my team. I even considered applying to work there. Not so much anymore. I’ve even removed it from my RSS feed. I don’t like offering criticism without a solution, but I’m not really motivated to come up with one here. It looks like employees may read this, so maybe someone will see the feedback. | | | |
| ▲ | xyzzy_plugh 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | This matches my perception of a ton of recent Cloudflare blog posts. I literally have no idea who they are targeting. It almost feels like they're targeting themselves. |
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| ▲ | boredumb an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Launching just recently and having to think about how i'm marketing things more and more, the hardest parts to really market are the AI related features.
Most of the real value AI provides isn't flashy its just eliminating the tedious work that sits between the interesting parts of a job: structuring messy data, extracting information from documents, validating it against references, filling out forms, routing it for approval, and preparing it for distribution.
The exciting work was already exciting. AI just removes the friction between point A and point D. That's alot harder to demonstrate than generating an image or writing a paragraph. "Look, here's all the data you no longer have to enter manually" isn't exactly a compelling marketing headline, even if it's where users save the most time. I sometimes wonder who AI marketing is really for. The people who would benefit from eliminating repetitive work, or other technical people who want to see interesting AI demos.. A lot of product launches end up looking like "Here's a prompt that bootstraps X," when the bigger story is that the prompt replaces an hour of repetitive work that nobody wanted to do in the first place. |
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| ▲ | dofm 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Random trivia (and something I learned this way myself from an internet reply, though I can't remember when): What gets buried is the "lede". It is a really unusual thing — a deliberate, engineered misspelling of "lead" that leaked into broader use: https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versu... (Not meant as a nit-pick — it's just something that adds really fascinating historical colour to a useful expression, that people often mistakenly re-correct) |
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| ▲ | glenstein 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Not sure why you got downvoted on this one. You're right and you even turned it into a bit of language history. It's bury the lede, and now I know why. | | |
| ▲ | dofm 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I think it was fair. I added the bit in brackets to clarify because maybe it had come across as a nit-pick. In my head there are corrections that are rude that I don't do, because I genuinely think authentic writing matters more and more, and because I am absolutely not above reproach where grammar and spelling is concerned. Then there are things I think people would want to know, that are either in the intellectual-you-have-a-little-bit-of-pinach-in-your-teeth territory or in the "cool fact" territory, or somewhere hazy in between. I figured if one is going to correctly use an expressive phrase like "bury the lede" that they've perhaps only ever heard someone say, they would absolutely want to know about the spelling quirk, because it fully makes it better. Other people obviously read it differently and the downvote was a useful signal. |
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| ▲ | reaperducer 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It's spelled "lede" so as not to be confused with "lead," as in the metal with which was used to print newspapers. Since "lead" (as in beginning of a story) and "lead" (as in metal) were frequently used in print newsrooms, the spelling of one changed over time to reduce confusion. There were a number of other language convolutions in newsrooms, such as "slug" which meant a piece of hot metal, and so was useful for describing a spent bullet, the very short text that served as a title for a particular story, and a section of metal letters on the printing press. /Worked for two major newspaper companies back when printing newspapers was akin to printing money. | | |
| ▲ | dofm 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | “TK” meaning “to come” is another one. “More TK” in particular is now a blogger affectation but it seems to have been a way to communicate to an editor that a story was so far incomplete, within the text of a submission, without the editor assuming the words “to come” were part of the story. And elsewhere it indicates a placeholder that needs a fact to be confirmed and filled in before publication. | | |
| ▲ | reaperducer 12 minutes ago | parent [-] | | it seems to have been a way to communicate to an editor that a story was so far incomplete When the story was complete, the notification varied from newspaper to newspaper, but very often they followed the AP's convention of writing "-30-" which I have always believed was something the AP print wire actually (and surprisingly) adopted from the broadcast side, because broadcast stories were ideally 30 seconds long. |
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