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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

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Post by arandomhuman »

NetOpWibby wrote: post #11
thehamkercat wrote: post #2

Why are companies slapping "OS" in their product naming? it's stupid

From the GitHub page: 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 workloads.

Wow this is really poor justification for its name, the folks at cloudflare really should not be overloading the term "Operating System" pointlessly like this.

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

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Post by chews »

eigencoder wrote: post #168

I think this is trying to do something similar to exe.dev, but not doing it as well

I am an exe customer and happy with the product, but this has support for sockets and grpc. This is a slightly more capable product for various use cases.

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

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Post by arush15june »

I just deployed it on my cloudflare workers, it went live in a minute, worked through my CF Access SSO. Wasn't able to configure providers easily. But reading the blog this is wild! I have been driving a hermes agent off a VM in a proxmox from my slack and wondering how to handle security.

If this takes off, this is really how enterprise agents should end up looking like. The dynamic workers hosting applications is the AI Appsmith/Retool that I need for internal dashboards.

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

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Post by fragmede »

kentonv wrote: post #178
echelon wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Workers is a product and you're paid to develop and sell it as an employee. I 100% understand the hustle. I do the same thing. I just don't trust a giant like Cloudflare that has done several things to weaken the open web and establish a position that is all too powerful. I don't want to give them an iota of support. Even using open source buys into their mindshare, distribution, ecosystem, and eventual supremacy and…

I tried it as a startup once, so I know what that's like. It's a lot of time spent running around begging for money (from investors and from customers) rather than building technology. Workers is my startup-within-Cloudflare. It won't make me a billionaire, but it has still made me more money than I actually know what to do with, while being able to delegate all the stuff I don't like doing to other parts of the comp…

Congratulations on making it, yet continuing the grind! Work takes on a different meaning when you could just fuck off to the beach for the rest of your life. Thank you for making it open source, not that I'd make a Cloudflare competitor with it, but the sandbox technology will be useful.

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

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Post by kentonv »

ahriad wrote: post #237

They gated it to US providers only, fucking garbage

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 expand it to everything pi-agent-core supports, just need some UI work.

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

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Post by spencerflem »

tavavex wrote: post #230
kentonv wrote: post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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 code from storage and turning it into running programs with state. > it doesn’t initialize hardware or interface with it on a low level. Instead of devices it manages interfacing with external services (Gatekeepers are like drivers). I didn't…

> Instead of devices it manages interfacing with external services (Gatekeepers are like drivers). This required stretching the terminology so much that now, by your definition, any software that interfaces with anything else in a restricted/controlled manner is OS-like because that's just like interfacing with hardware. I get why they chose the word - this is marketing, they want to make it appear foundational, as a…

ZOHO calls their Microsoft Office suite an OS I think.

I feel like if it’s a platform app developers can target to run general purpose user facing software, it can be an OS.

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

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Post by ljm »

fny wrote: post #32
rozenmd wrote: 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…

That should have been the announcement. The article posted buries the lead. Cloudflare OS reads like almost any other AI knowledge base until midway when apps are introduced and then becomes overly technical with a code snippet.

The announcement reads like it's generated by AI. I opened it looking for a punch list of selling points but there was nothing. I figured it was just Cloudflare trying to do Cowork.

The readme I generated for an agent I put on top of pi reads almost the same as this.

AI does not do emotion. There is no punch, or pop. If I walk away from an announcement thinking it's AI slop then the announcement failed.

It's nothing like the posts Cloudflare used to write.

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