One year later: the power of 1.1.1.1 interns

What happened

The blog runs on EmDash , and EmDash’s second maintainer started at Cloudflare as an intern this past summer. From their first day, interns joined active teams and worked on real problems.

A year ago, many companies were cutting intern and new-graduate hiring . The bet was that AI makes early-career talent more valuable and able to make an impact faster.

They don’t supply the energy, curiosity and fresh eyes a new person brings to a team. If you’re reading this on the Cloudflare Blog, you’re already using some of their work.