Uh oh... Cloudflare just turned evil

So, the headline today is that Cloudflare—the company famous for being the absolute, undisputed bouncer of the internet—just released a brand new tool for developers. And the tool... is a bot. A web scraper. The big, hilarious irony here is that the company that has spent the last decade building the most sophisticated anti-bot protection on the planet, just handed developers a master key to scrape the web for AI. Now, if you’re a developer, or you’re building AI apps, or you run a startup, this is a massive deal. It is fundamentally shifting the landscape of how data gets fed to large language models. But if you missed the announcement, or the absolute chaotic reaction to it on Twitter over the last few days, we really need to dive into this. Because on one hand, this new tool is an absolute masterclass in infrastructure engineering. But on the other hand, it has put Cloudflare in this incredibly comical, paradoxical position in the market. And it is actively sending shockwaves throug