Sid

principal engineer @Cloudflare • built Cloudflare Workflows • building @rustforjsdev • prev @GatsbyJS

[Justin Poehnelt @JPoehnelt]

Two months ago I was fired by Google for creating the Google Workspace CLI. It went viral, hit #1 on Hacker News, gained thousands of GitHub stars and many thousands of actual users in just a couple days.

It was an incredible, confusing journey, from directors and leaders asking what they could learn from the tool to getting grilled by legal about why the Google logo and brand colors are on the Google Workspace GitHub code repositories.

I think the cause was that Workspace and certain leaders (and projects) were afraid of being disrupted. But the fear wasn't specific to my CLI, it was a broader fear in what agents meant for Workspace. Either way, the irony of my termination was the announcement at Google Cloud Next two days before I was fired that an official Workspace CLI was coming.

I want this out there because it is easier for me to explain my story and it is an experience I want to fully own. It's also part of my healing.

Nearly 7 years at Google was an incredible opportunity for me and I was fortunate to have wonderful teammates and a manager that fully supported me through these last few months. Thank you.

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@typesfast To be fair, I worked remotely in India for 3 or so years half a decade ago and it was great

Other than the fact that back then a lot of Bay Area startups were still doing geographic pay

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@dillon_mulroy @threepointone @RhysSullivan He never smiles like that on calls with me 😞

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

Of local brands and businesses in London lately, few have impressed me as much as Bear’s new vets at @CreatureComfVet lately

This is how you build brand loyalty (well besides also being fantastic vets)

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@Gac_BL @Jilles @CloudflareDev They get deleted if not claimed within 60 mins

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

This guy makes the best videos haha

Hat tip @Jilles 👏

[Jilles Soeters @Jilles]

Hold up.

Your agent can now deploy to Cloudflare without an account?!

Yes! We have temporary accounts for AI agent deployments.

[Jilles Soeters @Jilles]

Hold up.

Your agent can now deploy to Cloudflare without an account?!

Yes! We have temporary accounts for AI agent deployments.

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

I strongly considered doing this for 007 First Light but (almost unfortunately), I enjoy shipping stuff on @CloudflareDev too much

[Spill The Memes @SpillTheMemes]

😂

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@celso @clumma @MattieTK I like your style, adds some drama 👏

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@clumma @MattieTK Hey @celso actually speaks like that 😂

[Sam Lambert @samlambert]

One company serves 23% of the internet and the other one hosts some of the world's largest relational databases. Good partnership.

[Brendan Irvine-Broque @irvinebroque]

agents can now create temporary Cloudflare accounts

let your agent deploy to Cloudflare without signing up or logging in

wrangler deploy --temporary

https://t.co/pAa1OBvHpv

[Cloudflare @Cloudflare]

Today we're rolling out Temporary Accounts on Cloudflare Workers. Any agent can now run wrangler deploy — temporary and get a live Worker in seconds. https://t.co/o5GLomVUxb

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@MattieTK haha

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@avenceslau haha always great working with you man

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@yagiznizipli thank you legend

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

One small step for humans, a big step for agentkind

We've been working on making it much easier for agents to deploy to Cloudflare Workers

AI agents can now deploy a real app without you signing up first, doing OAuth, creating an API token, or clicking through a dashboard

Just wrangler deploy --temporary

https://t.co/4oKMnHvloU

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

@QuinnyPig I hear you like agent clouds

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

Another step towards making @CloudflareDev the default agent cloud from partners in crime @irvinebroque @celso and me

This time with special appearances by @edevil @avenceslau @burcs @BraydenWilmoth

I love this team

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

One small step for humans, a big step for agentkind

We've been working on making it much easier for agents to deploy to Cloudflare Workers

AI agents can now deploy a real app without you signing up first, doing OAuth, creating an API token, or clicking through a dashboard

Just wrangler deploy --temporary

https://t.co/4oKMnHvloU

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

See docs here https://t.co/U5JZvYyPDt

[Sid @SidChatterjee]

This is the quickest way to try out our Dev Platform all without needing to make an account first

Like what you build? You get a claim URL (ask your agent). If you open within 60 mins and sign in/sign up, you get to keep it

Or it's gone! Great for a quick demo or experiment