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kentonv

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About kentonv

Tech lead for Cloudflare Workers: workers.dev

Also created: capnproto.org, sandstorm.io, lanparty.house

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49202255

    Thought experiment: Let's imagine that we actually just want to build a product that provides value to customers. No tricks up our sleeves. What would we have done differently in t…

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    Comment #49202228

    To be fair the readme is pretty clear that this is "early access" and still in a state of rapid development.

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    Comment #49198525

    It does not cost $2m of compute to run an instance of Cloudflare OS. I am running it on a random server in my basement.

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    Comment #49198488

    We're adding an update function. Didn't need it yet on day one. :)

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    Comment #49198445

    You are reading WAY too much into it. We aren't that clever about naming at Cloudflare. Do you know how we named Wrangler, our local dev tool for Workers? Literally, the person tha…

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    Comment #49196261

    You can self-host using workerd. But I'm certainly not claiming that this alone is sufficient to comply with regulations. I have no idea.

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    Comment #49196211

    Yeah sorry, only the providers I listed are supported right now. We'll be widening support soon.

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    Comment #49192072

    Always! https://www.cloudflare.com/careers/jobs/?department=Emerging...

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    Comment #49192064

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmS5s6Wbin4 -- Talk / demo I gave at AI Engineer World's Fair last month. (Final branding was still in flux at the time so it is presented as "Gadge…

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    Comment #49191649

    Honestly, you wouldn't want to run our internal implementation -- it's far too complicated. Unless you have 100+ datacenters around the world -- then maybe. The goal of this new de…

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    Comment #49191560

    workerd stand-alone is designed to work well at small-medium scale. If we open sourced Cloudflare's production scheduler, nobody would be able to use it because it is explicitly de…

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    Comment #49191519

    Yeah, I checked that in intentionally. I've started checking in plans under `plans/` so that people can see the plan during code review, and also so I can refer to it when I prompt…

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    Comment #49191481

    The idea is actually supposed to be that Cloudflare OS is Cloudflare's internal instance, but when you deploy it for your own company, you call it " OS". The product name and logo …

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    Comment #49191466

    The code currently supports Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Workers AI, and ollama as AI providers. It additionally optionally supports sending all requests through Cloudflare AI Gatewa…

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    Comment #49190747

    Flue is actually also built on Pi. We are big Pi fans at Cloudflare. Cloudflare OS uses pi-agent-core, but not pi-coding-agent. pi-agent-core, at least the way CFOS uses it right n…

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    Comment #49190321

    You beat us to it! Been meaning to land this but got distracted. https://github.com/cloudflare/workerd/pull/6780 But honestly I love that there are multiple implementations now.

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    Comment #49189692

    Not intentionally, we just haven't gotten around to expanding the provider list beyond what we use regularly. There is ollama (local LLM) support in there. But we'll probably expan…

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    Comment #49186570

    wrangler is a development tool. You wouldn't want to run dev mode in production. But workerd can be used directly without wrangler, and is production-capable in that format. Unfort…

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    Comment #49186505

    In theory Wasm could be supported, but generally JS/TS is much more efficient when running inside isolates (our lightweight sandboxes) since you don't have to bundle a language run…

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    Comment #49186392

    Incorrect. You can host it on workerd on your own servers. No Cloudflare required.

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    Comment #49186375

    No, a Gadget does not just get automatic access to your data. It only gets access to the things you grant it explicitly.

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    Comment #49186344

    > It doesn’t schedule tasks, It absolutely does. > doesn’t deal with physical memory, Well it sort of does. It allocates sandboxes and schedules apps in them. It handles loading co…

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    Comment #49186306

    Mostly to get trolls to retweet and complain about it for free advertising. It's working. ;)

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    Comment #49186292

    The key is the fine-grained instances (gadgets). E.g. if you're using a slide editor app, each slide deck you create is its own instance of the app, whose code can be independently…

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    Comment #49186163

    https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os