“we've been trying to build … platform layer around AI tooling at Cloudflare, not just coding … but the stack that makes the tools useful and safe inside a real engineering organization.”
Rajesh Bhatia, Senior Director of Engineering, Cloudflare. Leads the team that built and runs Cloudflare's internal AI engineering stack, so he is in a position to know its adoption and design; Cloudflare also sells the platform products it uses internally.
Cloudflare sells AI or agent tooling, so it has a reason to publish flattering numbers about AI. The passage stays in the archive; read it with that in mind.
How this was checked
Not yet checked by an independent second reader. The wording, speaker and date come from the source linked above; treat it as a lead until it is confirmed.
First reader (reader-web lane, 2026-11-01): two passes over the original audio, a whisper transcription of the full recording and a separate pass over the YouTube caption track, agree on the words quoted, except as noted. Not yet checked by a blind second reader. Cuts: 'a' before 'platform layer' (not in the whisper pass) and 'assistants' (caption pass hears 'assistance'). Punctuation only differs otherwise.
How to cite this passage
Rajesh Bhatia (Cloudflare), “From Assisted to Delegated: Cloudflare's AI Engineering Stack (interview, Background Agents Summit 2026)”, Ona (YouTube), 2026-05-06, at 2:10. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbLdrAZFQRs Archived at https://the-ai-record.com/passages/cloudflare-build-platform-layer-around-ai-tooling-2026
Context. Describing early misses with Cloudflare's internal AI code reviewer, before the team tied its findings to machine-readable engineering standards.
Context. Asked which month or model made AI coding tools start to work at Cloudflare; he had said the company began piloting coding assistants in mid-2025.
Context. Answering how Cloudflare reached 93% of R&D using AI tools; he has just said adoption was slow at first because the models were not good enough.
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