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Why Is Skipping AI a Red Flag at Cloudflare?

Dane Knecht says skipping AI in your own life is a red flag when Cloudflare hires. Curiosity is one of the main things the company looks for, and drive, curiosity, and empathy matter even more for the next people it brings in. Someone that curious has little room to ignore AI. Fear and skepticism are the usual reasons people hold back, which Sarah Guo put to him as the reason the habit still has to be a principle at the company.

Cloudflare is inventing how the work gets done. The number of sites behind it, and the free services it gives away, make off-the-shelf technology impossible at that scale. New people have to come in and invent. Hiring for that starts with curiosity.

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Democratizing Security for the Agentic Web with Cloudflare CTO Dane Knecht ·

No Priors: Artificial Intelligence | Technology | Startups

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  1. How Are AI Agents Finding Major Security Holes?Dane Knecht says AI is now finding serious internet holes on a weekly rhythm, including a cryptographic key whose seed was the number four.
  2. How Long Will the AI Security Spending Surge Last?Dane Knecht says the surge lasts about 18 months.
  3. How Does Secure Software Start?Dane Knecht says secure software starts by shrinking the attack surface: fewer places for a vulnerability, simpler software, and less code.
  4. Who Should Pay When AI Agents Read the Web?Dane Knecht says the site owner should get paid when an AI agent reads the page, because agents and people are sharing a web that was priced for humans.
  5. Why Was Cloudflare's Restructuring So Hard?Dane Knecht says the restructuring was hard, and saying goodbye to some colleagues was the first time Cloudflare ever did it.
  6. Should Cybersecurity AI Models Be Open Source?Dane Knecht says cybersecurity AI has to be open over time, because the people who need to defend will not all sit inside a few labs.
  7. Should I Put My Site Behind Cloudflare?Dane Knecht says people who cannot afford four red teams, or who never had a red team and still run important systems, should put their sites and…

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