A runtime for developers and their agents
Presented by: James Snell
Originally aired on October 23 @ 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
The Cloudflare Workers runtime rests on a few primitives: V8 isolates as the unit of execution, bindings as a capability model instead of ambient network access, conformance to web standards and ECMA-262, and Node.js compatibility. None of these were built with agents in mind. Isolates predate today’s AI by years, and bindings were built to connect a Worker to a database, not sandbox untrusted code. This session covers how these primitives add up to something bigger: a developer platform where human-written and agent-written code run on equal footing. Learn how the web is reshaping around agents as a new kind of visitor and how the developer platform is reshaping around agents as a new kind of developer — one that writes TypeScript to call your tools or completes an entire coding session not typed by hand. Code Mode and the Sandbox SDK are two such examples. The Workers runtime forms the foundation of this evolving developer world view.
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