When Distributed Computing Meets Corporate Control: The Reality of Cloudflare's AI Platform

Cloudflare is positioning its Workers AI platform as a distributed solution for building AI agents with integrated infrastructure for state management, task orchestration, and observability. However, the critical concern is that despite claims of distribution, the entire system remains under centralized corporate control with a single company policy, billing, and decision-making authority—raising important questions about vendor lock-in and governance that developers should carefully evaluate.