# Matthew Prince

Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/people/matthew-prince/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy.

Real Alpha has cut 3 moments of Matthew Prince (Co-founder & CEO, Cloudflare) talking, from an interview on TBPN published Oct 22, 2026.

- Role: Co-founder & CEO, Cloudflare
- On X: https://x.com/eastdakota

## What Matthew Prince said

- [Agent traffic could force the internet to charge per request](https://realalpha.app/s/agent-traffic-could-force-the-internet-to-charge-per-request/)
  TBPN · Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min
  > “if current trends continue in five years, automated traffic, agent traffic is going to be a thousand times human traffic.” — Matthew Prince · [25:12](https://realalpha.app/v/xq6fzvVM6V4/?t=1512)
- [AI helps attackers navigate systems after a breach](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-helps-attackers-navigate-systems-after-a-breach/)
  TBPN · Oct 22, 2026 · 5 min
  > “What we're seeing now is if that same hack happened today, the attackers are using AI to say, OK, I found myself in Salesforce.” — Matthew Prince · [12:19](https://realalpha.app/v/xq6fzvVM6V4/?t=739)
- [AI could make common coding bugs nearly impossible within two years](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-could-make-common-coding-bugs-nearly-impossible-within/)
  TBPN · Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min
  > “two years from now, I think it's going to be almost impossible to write buggy code” — Matthew Prince · [21:02](https://realalpha.app/v/xq6fzvVM6V4/?t=1262)

## The episode

- [Matthew Prince on PHP2Shell, Duo on Arrival, 100 Really Difficult Phone Calls, Norwegian Gold Scheme](https://realalpha.app/v/xq6fzvVM6V4/) · TBPN · Oct 22, 2026