Cloudflare Matrix Homeserver
Jade (Hacker News):
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn’t, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn’t do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable. Instead it’s littered with ‘TODO: Check authorisation’ and similar.
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Honestly this is almost insulting to me, as someone who has spent a nontrivial amount of effort developing a Matrix homeserver, with how low effort it is. And what’s the point? Marketing? I’m not gonna be trusting anything Cloudflare after this.
This seems out of character for them.
Technical blogs from infrastructure companies used to serve two purposes: demonstrate expertise and build trust. When the posts start overpromising, you lose both.
My charitable read on this is that an individual vibe-coded both the post and repository and was able to publish to the Cloudflare blog without it actually being reviewed or vetted.
That would also raise questions.
This post was updated at 11:45 a.m. Pacific time to clarify that the use case described here is a proof of concept and a personal project.
It does not clarify how AI was used.
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Re: "out of character", here is an earlier project from Cloudflare that sounds similarly sloppy: https://mastodon.ml/@mo/115968308376266484
