Keep an eye out for Sonnet generating Python files. What typically happens is: let's say you had a refactor that needs to happen, and let's say 100 symbols need renaming. Instead of invoking the edit tool 100 times, Sonnet has this behaviour where it will synthesise a Python program and then execute it to do it all in one shot.
I wonder how far I could go with a barebone agent prompted to take advantage of this with Sonnet and the Bash tool only, so that it will always try to use the tool to only do `python -c …`
If it turns out that this was really just random bad luck, it shouldn't affect their reputation (if humans were rational, that is...)
But if it is what many people seem to imply, that this is the outcome of internal problems/cuttings/restructuring/profit-increase etc, then I truly very much hope it affects their reputation.
But I'm afraid it won't. Just like Microsoft continues to push out software, that, compared to competitors, is unstable, insecure, frustrating to use, lacks features, etc, without it harming their reputation or even bottomlines too much. I'm afraid Cloudflare has a de-facto monopoly (technically: big moat) and can get away with offering poorer quality, for increasing pricing by now.