Cloudflare Agents Week Preview: What to Expect

In this short edition of This Week in NET, host João Tomé joins from the island of Madeira for a quick preview of Cloudflare’s first Agents Week. João is joined by Ming Lu (Principal Product Manager at Replicate) and Anni Wang (Product Manager) to discuss why AI agents are becoming one of the biggest shifts happening on the Internet right now. They explore how agents are starting to generate more code than developers, why the Internet is moving toward agents interacting with other agents, and what infrastructure is needed to build and run them securely at scale. The conversation also previews some of the themes of Agents Week: building and running agents on Cloudflare’s platform, securing agent access to tools and data, managing the large volumes of data agents generate, and how the web itself may change as machines increasingly consume content. Check our Agents Week site: cloudflare.com/agents-week ⸻ Timestamps 01:11 — Meet Ming Lu and Anni Wang 01:55 — What Agents Week is and why Cloudflare launched it 02:44 — Why agents are becoming a major shift for the Internet 04:33 — Why agents need new infrastructure for compute, storage, and security 05:02 — The rise of personal and enterprise agents 06:43 — Running agents on Cloudflare’s platform 07:34 — Security challenges when agents access tools and data 09:13 — How agents may change how the web is consumed 10:23 — Managing the massive data agents generate 11:21 — Working with multiple AI models and switching between them 12:43 — What it’s like launching a Cloudflare Innovation Week 14:07 — The energy and chaos of building announcements 14:52 — Final thoughts and what to expect next week