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DK Dane Knecht On No Priors

“Previously on the internet, we would see these log4j moments or these shell shock type of incidents maybe once a year. And it would be all hands on deck internally at Cloudflare… These things are now happening weekly.”

No Priors · AI Research & Frontier Labs · October 2026

“Previously on the internet, we would see these log4j moments or these shell shock type of incidents maybe once a year. And it would be all hands on deck internally at Cloudflare… These things are now happening weekly.” — Dane Knecht, No Priors

Cloudflare's CTO on how AI has changed his priorities. He expects more than half of engineering time to go to security for the next 18 months, until AI has worked through most of the old code.

Transcript

No Priors Around 03:16 into the episode
Dane Knecht

Yeah, yeah. There's been some jokes about renaming the show next year.

Sarah Guo

So with everything that Cloudflare is doing, what are your top few priorities at CTR right now?

Dane Knecht

…up exponentially. Previously on the internet, we would see these log4j moments or these shell shock or type of incidents maybe once a year. And it would be all hands on deck internally at Cloudflare to make sure how we protect not just our enterprise customers, but also all of our free customers, because we view it as kind of just a public good and making sure that the internet stays safe. To these things are now happening weekly. Not all of them are publicly reported on, but there are things that are as serious as the log4j type things, but just happening at a greater frequency. And I expect that through the rest of this year and in the next year, by the next 18 months, majority of teams' time is going to be spent on security. I think there's a stat that was put up earlier today that during one of our keynotes where it…

Sarah Guo

your you know visibility what do you know about the humans behind you know these attacks and harnessing these models and taking the volume of vulnerability discovery up so quickly like are they you know nation state actors are they script kitties like what what can you say about um uh how the uh…

Dane Knecht

uh well i actually think for some of these uh um some of these larger vulnerabilities that have come out more recently actually uh haven't been nation states they've been uh um you know high school kids even uh that are uh we're going to call them

Sarah Guo

agent kitties now yeah

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