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Building Production AI Apps on Claude Code and Cloudflare [video]

This video demonstrates how to build production-grade AI applications using Claude Code and Cloudflare, covering deployment, scaling, and integration workflows for developers.

Background

- **Claude Code** is Anthropic's AI coding assistant — a tool that helps developers write, debug, and refactor software by conversing with the Claude large language model directly inside their terminal/IDE. - **Cloudflare** is a major cloud platform (CDN, DNS, serverless compute at the edge). This talk focuses on using its **Workers** (serverless functions), **AI Gateway** (proxy for managing API calls to LLMs), and **D1** (serverless SQL database) to host AI-powered applications. - The talk addresses a real tension in today's AI engineering: LLMs are good at prototyping but struggle to produce "production-ready" code (secure, scalable, maintainable). The speakers show how to use Claude Code iteratively to build features while leaning on Cloudflare's infrastructure to handle deployment, latency, and cost controls. - Prior context: Many developers now treat LLMs as pair programmers, but shipping AI-generated code to real users introduces reliability, security, and cost challenges that the demo workflows aim to solve.