John Graham-Cumming
Board member at Cloudflare, and its CTO until March 2025; joined the company as a programmer in 2012. Writes at blog.jgc.org, lives in Lisbon, and wrote the open-source email filter POPFile.
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Their wordsYou can look at the history of computer programming as improvements in programmer productivity and widening the scope of who is a programmer.
↗Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programmingblog.cloudflare.com 1st of 5 in this piece
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If AI removes much of programming’s arcane work, that may open programming to many more people.
Their wordsWhat if AI eliminates much of our odd work and lets people concentrate on the thing they are creating? I think that would be wonderful and would open the world of programming to many, many more people.
↗Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programmingblog.cloudflare.com 2nd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsA developer platform without AI isn’t going to be much use. It’ll be a bit like a developer platform that can’t do floating point arithmetic, or handle a list of data. We’re going to see every developer platform have AI capability built in because these capabilities will allow developers to make richer experiences for users.
↗Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programmingblog.cloudflare.com 3rd of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsData needs to be free to move from system to system, from platform to platform, without transfer fees, egress or other nonsense. If we want a world of AI, we need a world of data fluidity.
↗Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programmingblog.cloudflare.com 4th of 5 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd, I predict, AI is going to help people be smarter.
↗Batteries included: how AI will transform the who and how of programmingblog.cloudflare.com 5th of 5 in this piece
- 8 months earlier
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Products should be best-of-breed, not just working and available; ship early and iterate rapidly.
Their wordsBut it’s not just about making products work and be available, it’s about making the best-of-breed. We ship early and iterate rapidly.
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsJust as Cloudflare protects applications that use HTTP, we need to protect email at the application and content level.
↗Why we are acquiring Area 1blog.cloudflare.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsLet’s be clear, email is the biggest exposure for any business.
↗Why we are acquiring Area 1blog.cloudflare.com 2nd of 2 in this piece