Andy Halliday
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So don't put it on your primary work machine, put it on a $500 Mac mini over here on the side and, you know, have that as your assistant.
In order to follow on with the incredible viral flair that Moldbot has created, Cloudflare, you see what I did there?
Cloudflare has released Moldworker,
For those of you who don't know, Cloudflare is a content delivery network.
It has data centers around the world.
It has provisioning of different services, and they're now increasingly providing products out there.
But what they've done is they've jumped on the, hey, you can buy a Mac mini and run your own personal assistant locally approach.
But as Carl, our colleague, said when he initially did it, you can also set up a server in the cloud, and the cost is going to be around $5 a month.
Well, CloudPlayer's productized that.
So they released MoldWorker, an open-source middleware that allows users to run MoldBot
on Cloudflare's developer platform for about five bucks a month.
So the thing that's really distinctive about that is Cloudflare has provisioned this specifically for this kind of, you know, enclose the agent in this cloud-based operation and provide security all around it.
It's a very low barrier to entry for implementing the personal agent that Moldbot is.
And it's wrapped in self-hosted agent tooling systems so that it's already built in with all the security protections that you need.
So for five bucks a month, I might just go, you know, say I have a Cloudflare account.
Cloudflare accounts typically are purchased by enterprise in order to expand
Express their website around the world in an efficient manner and with high security.