Cloudflare CTO: token spend over next 18 months will go to security, not engineering
No Priors · youtube · 2026-10-23
On the No Priors podcast, live from Cloudflare Connect, CTO Dane Knecht discusses security in the transition to the agentic web.
Key points:
- Attacker landscape: Security has been an afterthought in the agentic web; enterprises that moved to zero trust are better positioned than castle-and-moat holdouts.
- 'Messy middle' web: Humans and agents ride the same internet rails; patching 70 years of legacy software means the software development lifecycle itself must change.
- Budget call: Over the next 18 months, token spend will go primarily to security rather than engineering.
- Product moves: The conference monetization gateway, the Signals project with OpenAI, the rationale behind Cloudflare OS, and the recent AI-first restructuring.
- Talent: Cloudflare hired 1,000 interns, and curiosity about AI is required to succeed there; plus open vs. closed models.
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