Rita Kozlov

VP, Developers & AI, Cloudflare · 1 appearance on the record.

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She leads Cloudflare’s developer ecosystem and AI infrastructure, overseeing platforms like Cloudflare Workers, Durable Objects, and agentic workflows. After joining Cloudflare in 2016 as a solutions engineer, she transitioned into product leadership to build edge computing and serverless tools.

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Kozlov: Wave of 'agent-first' businesses will emerge without traditional UIs

“I think that we're going to see a wave of, you know, going back to, again, Sunil, your point about mom and pop shops, these businesses turn up that are agent first, and that's kind of the only interface to using them as opposed to, you know, UIs and APIs and o…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 22:52 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Insight

Kozlov: Non-Kubernetes architectures are critical for cost-effective AI agent scaling

“It's easy to conflate long running with CPU intensive, and these are kind of not the same thing, and actually a lot of Specifically agentic workflows. A lot of what you're doing is you're waiting. You're waiting on human in the loop. You're waiting on LLM. You…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 34:29 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

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Kozlov: Protocols like MCP will eventually replace browser-based AI agents

“Especially with people building agents, I think it's kind of funny because it's a bit, to me, the anthropomorphification of agents, where it's like, we humans use browsers, so my agent is going to use a browser, but eventually I think that will get replaced wi…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 29:56 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

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Kozlov: Agent identity verification must be solved for agents to take off

“I think this problem is gonna have to be solved for agents to take off, quite honestly. I mean, I see what you're saying, but we do have to at some point then pass identity onto, like, if we go back to what we were talking about of, you know, I would love an a…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 33:01 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Insight

Kozlov: AI agents require tightly coupling compute and state

“An agent is really like LLMs and a bunch of workflows and coordination and orchestration and then extra, like some sort of services, right? Like you have kind of the brain of the operation, which is the LLM and it can come up with a plan. And then, but then it…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 3:06 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

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Kozlov: Cloudflare Durable Objects remain widely misunderstood by developers

“There, there's still at least one thread a week that goes something like this. Hey, can someone describe durable objects? And then there are a hundred comments and no two of them are the same. And people walk away equally confused.”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 6:23 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Opinion

Kozlov: Bullish on Model Context Protocol (MCP) as key to useful agents

“I'm very bullish on MCP. I'm really, really excited about it, but I think funnily enough, the term MCP is the thing that scares the normies away because it sounds so deeply technical, even though really it's the part that I think is going to Make agents intere…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 22:19 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Disclosure

Kozlov: Cloudflare heavily researching agent authorization and authentication

“This is a really, really big area of research and investment for us is how do we authorize and authenticate users to act on humans' behalf.”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 30:51 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Disclosure

Kozlov: Cloudflare is working on Durable Object-enabled containers

“Well, the thing that we hinted at, I mean, we are working on it and I think that the big unlock is going to be It's not either or, it's a both, and the thing that we're really excited about that maybe is the thing that I'll leave it to user for is durable obje…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 34:10 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Insight

Kozlov: Observability across millions of running agents is the next major challenge

“I think the next challenge is observability and okay, I've gone and spun off. I have 100,000, maybe millions of agents that are running. How do I track their different states? How do I track where their stock? I think that that's a really interesting next prob…”

Rita Kozlov Mar 19, 2025 ▶ 20:35 npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare	Mar 19, 2025	10m

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