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

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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...

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

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

Don’t the docs say running on wrangler is not for production use? Or am I missing something?

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.

Unfortunately we did not have time to put together example configs for this before launch (I wish we could have delayed, it was out of my hands), but we will be doing so soon.

Mentioned in the readme here:

https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare-os#deploy-to-your-o...

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

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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.

But "virtual machine" is not? Maybe "Virtual OS" is more acceptable?

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

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dumb question: is this javascript/typescript only? can you use webassembly based languages instead?

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 runtime into the app. CFOS at present only exposes JS (with TS coming soon).

Please add Wasm support :)

I'm making a whole new language to get around the problem you're talking about: it brings no runtime at all. One of my targets is a Sandstorm like system I've been slowly working on, but I'd love for it to be a fit for the actual Sandstorm successor.

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

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Don’t the docs say running on wrangler is not for production use? Or am I missing something?

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. Unfortunately we did not have time to put together example configs for this before launch (I wish we could have delayed, it was out of my hands), but we will be doing so soon. Mentioned in the readme here: https://github.com/cloudflare/cloudflare…

Appreciate the correction, thank you

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

#209

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?

Any platform specific code or config can be replaced with self-built infrastructure. Everything else you write should be portable.
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