WELCOME to Agents Week, announced on 12 April 2026 as Cloudflare kickstarts a focus on building the Internet for what comes next. The piece argues that agents are one-to-one, each running a single task in its own execution environment, contrasting this with traditional applications that follow a shared path.
It highlights that tools like Claude Cowork are already making agents accessible to less technical users, and notes that coding agents often run in containers to provide a filesystem, git, bash, and arbitrary binaries. A key point is the scalability challenge: if more than 100 million knowledge workers in the US used an agentic assistant at around 15% concurrency, capacity would need about 24 million simultaneous sessions, equating to roughly 500k to 1 million server CPUs for the US alone.
The article also discusses infrastructure built for agents, praising Isolates and the Dynamic Workers open beta for starting quickly and using far less memory than containers, with the aim of making per‑unit economics viable at scale.