[pibaker]

I don't know why it being potentially vibe coded or vibe written exonerates the author. "Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work [1]." It is your duty to ensure your work works, no matter what tools you used. You don't get to pass the blame on an AI agent any more than you get to blame intellij autocomplete for your buggy code.

Furthermore, I don't see why we are extending the principle of charity to cloudflare, a billion dollar enterprise controlling a significant part of internet traffic self identifying as a "utility." If cloudflare deserves more of something from us, it is scrutiny and accountability, not charity and deference.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

[ampersandy]

My take has nothing to do with charity to Cloudflare, but to the author. I can't help remembering that quote from the 50's where an IBM exec said they weren't going to fire an employee who made a costly mistake for the company, they just spent $$$ training them.

I think it's fair to assume, given the historical quality of the CF blog, that this was a (big) mistake by an individual, and not "Cloudflare", as an entity, making this claim.

[MatthiasPortzel]

I think that’s the right attitude for technical mistakes. But this is the engineering equivalent of fraud. Especially given that the author then went in and removed the TODO commits.