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.

▲ arandomhuman 9 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Wow this is really poor justification for its name, the folks at cloudflare really should not be overloading the term "Operating System" pointlessly like this.

▲ alt227 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It looks to me like they just wanted to distinguish their product from other AI agents/sandboxes, so they called it an OS to make it sound bigger and better.

▲ orphea 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's awful naming if they have to explain it.

▲ brazukadev 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

the people criticizing the vibecoded name knows what they meant, it is just not correct. It is the same as vegan meat.

	▲	aziaziazi an hour ago \| parent [-]
		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 https://www.etymonline.com/word/meat