Cloudflare's threepointone on AI anxiety: "Help people — that's what it's all about"
threepointone · x · 2026-10-05
Developer d33v33d0 voices the growing malaise over AI taking over code, hardware and eventually everything: "What are we even going to do? Sit on the beach and drink Mai Thais?" Cloudflare engineer threepointone (Sunil Pai) quote-replies: "Help people!! This is what it's all about" — arguing that in an AI era human value shifts toward helping others. A snapshot of the developer community's AI-displacement anxiety and one popular response.
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