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

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  1. thehamkercat · · focus · HN ↗
    Why are companies slapping "OS" in their product naming? it's stupid
    1. NetOpWibby · · focus · HN ↗
      From the GitHub page:

          This is not a traditional computer operating system. We use the term "operating system" in two senses:

    - An operating system for the company to be productive with AI, in a way that is safe, so that the security team can sleep at night.
    - An operating system for AI workloads, analogous to the sense in which a traditional operating system manages compute workloads.
      1. brazukadev · · focus · HN ↗
        the people criticizing the vibecoded name knows what they meant, it is just not correct. It is the same as vegan meat.
        1. aziaziazi · · focus · HN ↗
          Excluding vegetables from what convey “meat” was also not correct around 1300-1500. Definitions changes with usage and only time will tell the future of vegan steaks, meats, milks, sauvages, butters and other parties.

          > food, nourishment, sustenance

          > Narrower sense of "flesh of warm-blooded animals killed and used as food" is attested from c. 1300

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