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Hey, hi everyone. My name is Nikita Kaner. I'm product manager at Cloudflare. I'm responsible for Cloudflare tunnel and warp connector on Cloudflare one team. And today I have Dina Kozlov with me. And she has been playing an incredibly important part in getting ready for past birthday weeks. And this week she has a very special announcement. announcement and it's day two of the week. Yesterday we had important announcements about democratizing developments. If you are not aware of what's going on, you were living under the rock, take a look at the Cloudflare blog, take a look at our socials. There are plenty of incredible announcements there. And then day two, it's all about AI and security and how we are making web a safe and open space for everyone. So Dina, how long have you been at Cloudflare and what are you working on so hi everyone so nice to meet you i'm dina i've been in coplar for almost seven years now which is crazy but uh i've worked on everything from uh dns ssl niche things like our time service but now um all my time is focused on our developer platform most specifically workers for platforms thinking about how do we make it easy for um you know uh anybody to deploy workers at scale not just the scale of hundreds but thousands of millions hundreds of millions um especially with um the ai boom more applications are being built than ever anybody can build them now um and so making sure that um our customers and developers have everything they need to be able to successfully launch a platform and continue to build upon it so yeah this is amazing i didn't know about real time service now you're making me interested about what you did in in space but for next time. So this is an incredibly fast moving and exciting space and knowing that you came from application services you know everything about like the scale and how our Anycast network serves millions and millions of requests per second and now you're applying this in a developer space which has a very specific sort of requirements and the vibe. So what are you doing this birthday week to make developers' life easier, better, pleasant, and make sure that they are very happy with Cloudflare going forward? So the latest big boom in technology in the AI space has been Vibe coding. If you're unfamiliar with Vibe coding, it's essentially before, you know, you had to know how to write code to be able to deploy. application but now you can say in sentences um to um an ai you know uh chat bot for example you can say i want to build a to -do list app and it will generate all of the code and it will get everything ready and then it will deploy the thing for you um so we are seeing this whole boom with ai vibe coding platforms you might be familiar with lovable bolt um they have their own um that um customers can use. But also we're seeing that a lot of SaaS companies or just businesses are building AI vibe coding into their own platform. So for example, allowing internal teams to be able to build applications, being able to build mockups. For example, your marketing team can put a landing page together without having to talk to engineering or maybe as a product manager. I have started doing this all the time now where before I dispense. a ton of time you know building out different mock-ups writing up the user journeys but now it's a lot more powerful if i can build like a mini um a mini application that just shows my engineers um it's insanely useful right because i don't know about you but i i when i'm writing like a product requirements document or something like this you think okay this is how it should work i'm pretty sure like it's logical and then you see an actual interface and you're like no this doesn't make sense this this needs to be here flow needs to be and you never know this until you actually have something tangible to try and test yes um it is so helpful to have it early on i feel like it also makes sure that like you're aligned with engineering of like what we're building this is what the interactions are like like you just said as soon as you start playing around with it you can see where things don't make sense um etc or how complex it is to actually do this exactly um So lots of companies are building this internally to empower internal teams. There's also some that are building this as a customization layer into their platform. So for example, let's say there's an e -commerce site and let's say I want to add like a little customization before maybe I'd have to write some code or maybe use a template, but now I can just chat with the AI and tell it like, hey, I want to build in this corner like a form that, you know, collects survey. information and it can just write the code and like build it for you. And there's a lot of different pieces that are needed to be able to build this kind of platform. You have the code generation piece which is usually powered by different LLMs and you know LLMs all have their different specialties so you may want to use a mix of providers for the different aspects of it. You also want some way for the user that's you know, interacting with the LLM to be able to see a preview so they can see what they're building out, be able to, you know, one, see it instantaneously, but be able to, you know, verify if that's what they need, give it feedback, continue to build on it. And then once it's done, you need to be able to deploy it. So it's not just stuck in preview, but, you know, ha ha, I've gotten into the state that I need it to be. Now I need to deploy it somewhere and make sure. that, you know, anybody can go and access it. And Cloudflare is the perfect place to build one of these platforms. We have all of the tooling you need, we can support unlimited scale. And so what we wanted to do was to make it as easy as possible for somebody to get started with a VIBE, AI VIBE coding platform, not just be able to, you know, VIBE code things, but actually be able to deploy the platform yourself. And so we built out VIBE SDK, which allows you with click you can deploy a whole vibe coding platform and it um we have stitched together all of the different pieces um from using um ai gateway to be able to interact with a number of um llms by default we use gemini um you can of course connect it to also open ai or anthropic or any other models you want to use um you can also it automatically is integrated with our sandboxing capabilities, which are powered by Cloudflare containers, which allow you to get these instant previews and essentially completes like the whole build of the application. And then it does everything up to deploying the actual application using Workers for Platforms, which is built for this kind of scale where you're deploying millions of apps and making sure that they all run. a secure environment where it's assumed that you know it's untrusted code um but it all runs in isolation so that one person's project cannot in any way impact another person's um you don't have to worry about you know something malicious happening there um because it is all um isolated um and i just love how by default yeah i just love how most of these primitives already existed and they are not net new products that have Like sandboxes were released a couple of months ago. Containers were a long time coming thing. But most of these primitives were already in developer platform for a long time. And it just, you know, warms my heart to see that by arranging these things in slightly different order, we can come up with a very new and very useful products that are going to change tomorrow. Exactly. And then. We even have a new reference architecture document that you can follow. And the nice thing about is you might already have some form of platform. You might be starting from scratch. You might have a slightly different way that you can do it. But at least this way, you can take out the pieces that you need. You can customize them to fit your needs, but you kind of have a starter that you can deploy in minutes. This is so great. I'm so excited about this. And especially as a person who is correct. having like two code editors open in one screen and there is LLM that is fixing a very quirky bug that's kept me running at night for a couple of weeks. I see so much value in this and I can't wait to see how the users are going to use it and what kind of feedback and what kind of suggestions they are going to bring back to us because it's a constant cycle. Every birth of the week, we're giving back these features. tools products uh to the internet and every birthday week we have an avalanche of feedback from community and sometimes it's how excited and great things are and sometimes oh why didn't you do that why didn't you um come up with this idea so i'm i'm very eager to see how um the world will respond to this one so it's yeah and it's completely open sourced um so um you know go go look through the code tear it apart yeah check out the github yeah and and definitely commit and contribute like that's the power of open source if you want something implemented and you know how to do this or you want to wipe code the vibe coding platform exactly you can do that we live in the recursion now you can do that uh cool so that's um pretty much in in my head this is a little bit of the world of tomorrow like we already have the wipe coding wipe coding platforms are kind of landing, but they are halfway here in my head. Building on top of the AI crawlers theme, that is the theme of Summer 2025. We're also going to help protect journalists and local news from AI crawlers with Project Galileo. You know, Project Galileo, I think, turned 10 this year, if I'm not mistaken. I think it's something along those lines. This is how Cloudflare helps nonprofit organizations. by giving them exactly the same enterprise -grade services for free because they're doing good for the world. So we're going to extend Project Galileo to the AI crawlers program to help protect local journalism and local news because we know that AI is great, but also the internet is great because there is unique local quality content and we cannot afford for AI to kill that. niche, because AI also gets trained on unique, great content. So there must be a model that benefits both the people who use AI and the people who generate the content that can then be used by AI to give great answers. So there will be announcements along those lines on what our ideal setup is and how we are helping non -profit organizations to give access to the tech to bring us closer to that future. where the ideal setup that benefits everyone is implemented. We're also partnering with Netlify and Webflow to support Astro and TenStack. Two very popular frameworks on the web. If you're not using them, then probably you just don't know that you're using them on the tag. Your applications that you deployed are using them on the front end. So this is super great. for the, um, developer community and for the ecosystem. So I'm very eager to see what the announcement is and, uh, how Astro and Tanstack could benefit from our expertise. Um, and, uh, the final two announcements of the day will be all around protecting, um, the traffic and protecting both the users of, um, Cloudflare Zero Trust. networks. This one is Cloudflare Confidence Scorecards. So we've announced that during the AI week. And this is essentially, at this point, everyone is using AI in the Netherlands, right? There are multiple AI agents, you may use ChatGPT, you may use Gemini, you may use DeepSeq. So depending on your business and how you run and secure or your corporate traffic, you may have preference for your users. You may want some rules around who can use what. And you may have some confidence in some AI companies. For example, OpenAI is usually known for following the crawlers' recommendations, training their data on the reputable sources. Antropic prides on training their models on good quality. as well. But there are some other models out there that you may or may know not about, but your employees might use them. So Cloudflare Confidence Scorecards essentially allows you to use our very well -defined scoring mechanism that is completely transparent to decide which models should be exposed to your corporate users and which traffic you may want to restrict for the sake of protecting your corporate users. data. And then the final announcement is about building unique per customer defenses against advanced bot threats in the AI era. You may know about our bot management. We're always at the forefront of training our machine learning models, but usually we were training them on the aggregate traffic and the sites on the web are very different. Your personal blog may be very different from a large e-commerce site that sells Snickers. So the what kind of good and bad for these two properties, might be very different. So with that announcement, we are actually training part of the bot management system on your specific traffic. So now we know what is a normally for your site and we can block or challenge this because we know this traffic doesn't make sense for your internet property. And as always, Enterprise will be able to control this. resources, PayGo, and free users will benefit from these protections in a more managed way. So I'm incredibly excited and proud of what we are doing this birthday week, and in particular for a safe and open web this Tuesday. I'm very eager to read your blog post, Dina, about the Vibe coding, and I'm gonna try it. And I'm gonna look at the GitHub code for sure. Stay in touch with us. uh check out the cloudflare blog uh keep watching cloudflare tv and we're gonna bring even more great announcements um tomorrow sounds amazing thank you