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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 radlad »

tkel wrote: post #85
radlad wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think because the idea of an "agent operating system" is starting to feel more and more inevitable. Since I can use AI to: - Pull information from external sources - Transform and/or augment that information - Publish information I almost do not need a traditional OS anymore. This obviously isn't entirely true: I still use it to interact directly with humans, and it's the way I access my LLM. For now.

Does your LLM have hardware drivers in it? this is silly.

I'm obviously not saying that LLMs replace the glue between hardware and software. That would be absurd.

An operating system is just the interface a user has to the programs they run on their computer. Surely you can imagine a world where you boot into a ChatGPT-like interface instead of the desktop OS you are familiar with?

Different computing paradigms already exist: mobile OS sure, but also ChromeOS... heck, install Arch Linux and you're dropped into a shell by default - not a GUI. How is this so different?

And it doesn't even have to replace your existing OS to be your operating system: If you purchase a cloud VM (say from AWS or DigitalOcean), you're likely running an operating system on top of another operating system already.

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

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Post by VladVladikoff »

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…

It is quite foolish to believe that now that we have AI generated code that people will suddenly choose the more secure option rather than the cheapest. My evidence in exhibit A: The success of Wordpress.

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

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Post by crazysim »

kentonv wrote: post #57
fny wrote: post #32

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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.

We really struggled with how to present this to multiple audiences at once. My tweet thread, and the GitHub readme, is really the presentation intended for the HN crowd. The blog post is for a different audience. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

Why not a talk/demo video? Like Google Wave. Yeah I know that's probably not the best ~~success~~ example but it was a hell of a demo.

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

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Post by millsau »

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…

do you think this would do a better job then hermes? Also would it run on a rasberry pi?

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

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Post by nl »

philistine wrote: post #74
kentonv wrote: post #57

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We really struggled with how to present this to multiple audiences at once. My tweet thread, and the GitHub readme, is really the presentation intended for the HN crowd. The blog post is for a different audience. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

> The blog post is for a different audience. No one? Like literally, I don't understand a thing of what the blog post is saying. It's vague to the point of meaning nothing. Every piece of text I've seen that explains CloudflareOS is clear except the blog post.

I sent the blog post to someone right now because it had exactly the kinds of details they care about, with the appropriate level of technical details.

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

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Post by Izikiel43 »

kentonv wrote: post #57
fny wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

We really struggled with how to present this to multiple audiences at once. My tweet thread, and the GitHub readme, is really the presentation intended for the HN crowd. The blog post is for a different audience. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

Are you hiring?

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

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Post by kentonv »

crazysim wrote: post #274
kentonv wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We really struggled with how to present this to multiple audiences at once. My tweet thread, and the GitHub readme, is really the presentation intended for the HN crowd. The blog post is for a different audience. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

Why not a talk/demo video? Like Google Wave. Yeah I know that's probably not the best ~~success~~ example but it was a hell of a demo.

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 "Gadgets".)

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

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Post by kentonv »

Izikiel43 wrote: post #277
kentonv wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We really struggled with how to present this to multiple audiences at once. My tweet thread, and the GitHub readme, is really the presentation intended for the HN crowd. The blog post is for a different audience. https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os

Are you hiring?

Always!

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

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

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Post by lytedev »

ljm wrote: post #244
jtwocents wrote: post #219

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https://blog.cloudflare.com/three-chapters-at-cloudflare-pro... TL;DR; jgc stopped editing the blog, and AI slop took over: > Today, after more than 13 years at the company, I am joining Cloudflare’s board of directors and retiring from my full-time position as CTO. > ... > I wrote for, and edited, the Cloudflare Blog for many, many years

Nothing ever improves in the tech scene... it just decays until someone challenges it. Funnily enough CF has redesigned its navigation several times in the past year, just like GitLab used to do. Shuffling the UI like a deck of cards is pretty desperate.

Of course it improves! Had to decay from somewhere, didn't it?
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