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Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by zbentley » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:42 AM UTC

silcoon wrote: post #14

throwup238 wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you talked to Andreesen Horowitz yet? That elevator pitch alone should get you a few million.

Curious, is there an Andreesen Horowitz Agent MCP? Let’s automate this end to end, from idea to raising capitals. Vibe Angels should just be multi agents managing how much capitals to allocate to each projects.

You joke, but like the meme goes: go knocking on enough doors asking to see the devil, and eventually he might answer.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by DeathArrow » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:45 AM UTC

So they made it possible for agents to spend people's money buying their services.

Why didn't Amazon think of that?

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by zelon88 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:46 AM UTC

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Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by nojs » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

jackconsidine wrote: post #7

That is ironic. Four years ago, cloudflare didn’t let human me have an account / buy domains because I signed up, never used a single service but didn’t respond to a request to verify my drivers license > This account is in violation of Cloudflare's Terms of Service. Specifically fraud. The suspension is permanent. (Yes that’s really it. Sincerely. No “but I also abused X”)

This conflict is popping up everywhere. There is a push by a lot of companies to allow agentic use of their services (and new companies explicitly offering "X for agents"), ignoring the fact that "agent" means the same thing as "bot" which we've spent the last couple of decades actively filtering out. Will be interesting to see how it plays out.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by zbentley » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:48 AM UTC

faangguyindia wrote: post #19

Most of the sysadmin and devops team have been downsized in India because of AI. Basically, now it's trivial for any new devops guy to run such a query in Claude Code: “Log in to this production server, find out all services it runs and their deployment method, create documentation about everything, and generate a repeatable, auditable deployment workflow.” Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to m…

> Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to maintain job security.

I can't imagine this is very prevalent. That's a very 2004-style corporate immaturity; I get the sense that even the slow-moving behemoths of the software world have mostly caught up to, say ... 2017's recognition of the importance of automation and reproducibility and won't tolerate the kind of malpractice you describe--wilful information siloing by infrastructure teams.

Like, those businesses might well suck at automation! But they've been doing it and firing the people who resist it for a long while now.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by unglaublich » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:49 AM UTC

zelon88 wrote: post #33

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But they paid for the emission just like every other electricity consumer? Then who are we to determine the Hello World page is morally more wasteful than outdoor terrace heaters or advertising jumbo-trons?

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by schpet » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:49 AM UTC

why does cloudflare not allow existing users to create new accounts? you basically need to use a burner email and transfer it afterward. makes it awkward to use this on new projects that you want independent of your existing accounts.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by bakugo » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:50 AM UTC

faangguyindia wrote: post #19

Most of the sysadmin and devops team have been downsized in India because of AI. Basically, now it's trivial for any new devops guy to run such a query in Claude Code: “Log in to this production server, find out all services it runs and their deployment method, create documentation about everything, and generate a repeatable, auditable deployment workflow.” Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to m…

Only downsized? I would expect them to cease to exist entirely in the coming years, as western companies begin to realize that AI is cheaper and more competent than the Indian firms they usually outsource work to.

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by hedayet » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:51 AM UTC

Nice. Another step closer to the "dream" of filling the web with trash at scale

Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy

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Post by 14 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 4:51 AM UTC

jakebasile wrote: post #12

As a user of the internet I can only imagine this worsening my experience by allowing even more slop to permeate the network's every orifice. Also, when an agent sets up a domain, who is the domain owner? Who responds to takedown requests? What if it then decides to host illegal content at the domain (generated or otherwise). Who is responsible? Agents aren't (yet) legal persons, so it must be the person who owns the…

Interesting questions you bring up. Especially the legal ramifications as to how it would fully work within current legal framework. I suppose there would be a broad disclaimer and agreement one would have to agree to that would state that users of the service are ultimately responsible to monitor and ensure websites deployed by agents comply with local laws. Ultimately I assume that since it is not the agent who pays but a registered user that the user would own the site. And that the legal agreement would be agreed to beforehand so it is legally binding.