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Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

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Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#21

Seemingly Cloudflare’s strategy nowadays is shipping “open-source” projects that are coupled with their own infastructure. First EmDash CMS, now this.

Not a bad marketing strategy. Vendor lock in matters a lot less to some people than it does to me.

Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#22
post #4

I liked Kenton's take on this: https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2084990137180590572?s=20 Text from tweet: Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent the last 9 years building) and deep…

Damn, this is a pretty big deal!

Can you explain why you think this is a big deal?

What particular feature/capability made you think this?

I do not disagree but i am curios. Lets have a discussion instead of just throwing feel good vibes around...

Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#23

Everytime I read about new things from Cloudflare they look really cool but I cannot shake the feeling of not wanting to use them for fear of lock-in, am I too paranoid?

No, you’re not too paranoid. It has already proven both in the software and hardware world what vendor lock-in can lead to.

Also check out Bunny.net.

Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#25
post #4

I liked Kenton's take on this: https://x.com/KentonVarda/status/2084990137180590572?s=20 Text from tweet: Today we are releasing Cloudflare OS, a chatbot with connectors, just like every other tech company is doing. Except actually, it's different. This is a remake of Sandstorm[.]io, my startup from 10 years ago, except this time built on Cloudflare Workers (the platform I've spent the last 9 years building) and deep…

Sandstorm without self hosting has no interest though. (Edit: see below, where the creator states it _can_ be run locally)

Buzz looks like a more reasonable direction than this does.

Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#26
post #3

I am confused... it's not an OS, is it?

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os#cloudflare-os-an... This is not a traditional computer operating system. We use the term "operating system" in two senses: An operating system for the company to be productive with AI, in a way that is safe, so that the security team can sleep at night. An operating system for AI workloads, analogous to the sense in which a traditional operating system manages compute workl…

> We use the term "operating system" incorrectly.

FTF[them]

Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#27
This represents a small part of what IT is worried about. Offer a beer and say the word "SharePoint" if you want the long version of where this could wind up.

The issue isn't letting end-users add features. The issue is twelve end-users customizing something that produces output, saving it, and now nobody can read it.

This can get solved. If it even gets a chance to gain traction (it should, though IT will of course push back). But let's not pretend we're there yet.

Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#28

> Cloudflare OS is available today and is open source. Check out the cloudflare-os GitHub repository. You can deploy it into your own Cloudflare account and use your own Access policies, AI Gateway configuration, data, and integrations. In case anybody missed it.

It's open source, but it is so incredibly tied to their platform, that there is no vendor portability, which has made almost every of their product launches post-Workers kind of meh.

Re: Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work

#29

Everytime I read about new things from Cloudflare they look really cool but I cannot shake the feeling of not wanting to use them for fear of lock-in, am I too paranoid?

They also provide cover to those doing the dirty stuff which drives the need for their other products.

Not remotely paranoid.

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