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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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"OS for work" - like, what does it mean? OS is operating system, it runs on a hardware and provides you to operate the system. I hate when companies destroy the English language with vibe invented terms.

It's AI-native Microsoft SharePoint

As those are heavily vying to be the three worst things in IT, I'll pass.

Thanks for the warning!

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

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

Marketing types have started subbing in "Operating System" for "Platform" lately. And, because it feels bold and fresh to them, they often name whole product an "OS" when they do this in order to make anyone who talks about the product re-sell the pitch for them.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mmm so application-level sandboxing. Lovely. And I’m assuming your worker runtime is a process in a container on a shared node? What happens if the agent exploits your runtime? Does it get access to the whole container? VM? Node? Why should I ever choose this over MicroVMs? I have to design my architecture around your JS runtime. This isn’t an OS.

Workers are in the same process but have separate heap, global vars, gc etc, the isolation is managed and achieved by V8. It is much lightweight compared to micro VM or containers. But the downside is you have to use JS because of V8.

I get that but it’s much less secure. ie. If an agent finds a bug in V8 it’s over

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

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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 t…

Why not deploy cloudflare-os on proxmox?

It was just easier to use the deploy button on the repo tbh

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

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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…

> the AI cannot introduce a significant security bug.

Uh-huh.

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

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post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's spelled "lede" so as not to be confused with "lead," as in the metal with which was used to print newspapers. Since "lead" (as in beginning of a story) and "lead" (as in metal) were frequently used in print newsrooms, the spelling of one changed over time to reduce confusion. There were a number of other language convolutions in newsrooms, such as "slug" which meant a piece of hot metal, and so was useful for de…

“TK” meaning “to come” is another one. “More TK” in particular is now a blogger affectation but it seems to have been a way to communicate to an editor that a story was so far incomplete, within the text of a submission, without the editor assuming the words “to come” were part of the story. And elsewhere it indicates a placeholder that needs a fact to be confirmed and filled in before publication.

Add "ok" to this list as well - "oll korrect"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12503686

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