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Amazon Didn't Cut 30,000 Jobs for Culture. They Did It for GPUs.
Let’s skip the corporate spin and call it for what it is: Amazon didn’t lay off 30,000 people to “return to Day One culture.” They did it to free up capital for AI infrastructure. When a Hyperscaler Posts –$4.8 Billion in Free Cash Flow, It’s Not an Accident Amazon’s cash position last quarter wasn’t a rounding error. It was a liability. Negative $4.8 billion in free cash flow. That doesn’t just “happen.” That’s not belt-tightening. That’s an existential alarm bell. The faste

Rich Washburn
Jan 313 min read


When the Safety Net Snaps
It happened again. The one thing that’s not supposed to go down … went down. This morning, Cloudflare — the safety net of the internet, the infrastructure under the infrastructure — tripped over itself and faceplanted. If AWS is the backbone, Cloudflare is the connective tissue. It’s the silent middle layer that makes sure your site doesn’t go dark when other things do. Except today, it did. And when Cloudflare stumbles, it’s not just one site that goes offline — it’s an ent

Rich Washburn
Nov 18, 20254 min read


The End of Coding? Amazon's CEO Drops a Bombshell on the Future of Software Engineering
Artificial Intelligence is steadily infiltrating every corner of the tech industry, the recent leak of a conversation involving Amazon...

Rich Washburn
Aug 25, 20243 min read
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