Cloudflare as an Inference Layer for Agents: What It Promises and What Worries Me

There's a belief baked into the dev community that distributing AI inference close to the user is, by definition, good. More speed, less latency, better experience. And yeah, in the abstract it makes sense. The problem is that "distributed" and "decentralized" are not synonyms — there's a massive difference between the two that's getting completely lost in all the excitement around Cloudflare AI Platform. When something runs across 300 PoPs around the world but everything flows through a single