Cloudflare doesn't get enough credit for their series of overall great technical blog posts.

They also read like actual human curated content, to boot.

My LLM detector started going off around here:

> Why doesn't the Zone Builder just rebuild the setting that changed?

> It should, and that is where we ended up. However, proving when it was safe took most of the work. A record event identifies what changed. A zone event can come from many Cloudflare products, may not say why the zone changed, and can alter data shared by several zones with the same name. Choosing too much work wastes capacity. Choosing too little can leave stale or incorrect DNS data at the edge.

Re-reading the start of the post with that in mind, I'm fairly sure the article was generated by LLM.

With that said, curated it sure is. Aside from the smelly phrasing, the actual content is fairly dense and engaging. Not all of Cloudflare's LLM-generated posts are this good, but this one is fairly alright.

> LLM detector

What does it measure?

> smelly phrasing

How so?

Even if linguistics doesn't really quantify observations (eg. percentage use of specific words in a text), it at least provides qualititative observations (eg. contemporary novels contain shorter sentences and fewer details). What are you trying to convey here? That you're not one to be fooled and everyone should heed your words?

What's it like working at Cloudflare?

Sometimes a dog walks in front of the lava lamps and everyone's secret key is 0 for a few minutes.

At least it's not 4.

I really wish I could move to a different provider, but GitHub is just so damn practical. Downtimes such as this should at least be compensated, providing an actual financial incentive to improve their services, instead of slapping AI on yet another product.