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

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

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Post by Mario9382 »

firefoxd wrote: post #25

The agent starts a phone call, listens to the person on the line, analyzes which fraud bucket they fall into, and start the process. While they are on the phone with the agent, it buys a domain relevant to the victim, the agent codes and deploy the website specially catered to them and the fraud bucket. Collect payment, destroy the website, redirect the domain to google.com. no need to start a new call because you ha…

I thought this was excessive and impossible, but as I was reading, I realized nowadays everything you say is technically possible. The future gives me the chills.

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

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Post by makeitdouble »

ascorbic wrote: post #97
_pdp_ wrote: post #51

The reason this blog post does not come with any concrete examples how to use this enablement for useful and constructive things tells you something very important - it is a toy and they do not know who and how they will use it. It is cool feature but to what end? Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation. I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for. I am genuinely confused.…

People use agents to deploy sites all the time. Buying a domain is part of that if you want to build a site that's beyond a toy. Allowing agents to do a task isn't just for things you do every day – it's also for things you do rarely and need agents' help. It's not just devs using agents to perform these sort of tasks anymore. Stripe Atlas makes it massively easier for startups to incorporate in Delaware. This is par…

Wouldn't it be critical if the agent botched the domain purchase in weird ways ?

Short of throwaway sites (spam etc) it's hard to imagine skimping time on this specific, mostly painless part.

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

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Post by ascorbic »

eptityri wrote: post #86

I literally hate it every time I try to visit a website and face Cloudflare bot verification. And now, they’re letting bots create accounts and buy domains. Double-standard hypocrisy.

It's not as simple as being pro- or anti-bot. It's about giving site owners the tools to decide whether or not they want to allow them. Seems pretty consistent to me. If they don't want bots, they can use tools to identify and block them. If they do, they can do things like automatically deliver markdown versions to them, or use x402 to charge micropayments.

Disclaimer: I work at Cloudflare, but not on these

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

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Post by iugtmkbdfil834 »

lxgr wrote: post #100
iugtmkbdfil834 wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Some would argue, forcefully at that, that AI cannot make art and/or cannot be used to make art. What I saw was Transmetropolitan setup, where Hole renews their presence online every 5 minutes or so to avoid government censor.

People used to say the same about photography a while ago.

Oh:D I am not saying they are right, but the sentiment has become rather strong lately.

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

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Post by twostorytower »

faangguyindia wrote: post #29

One of the well-kept secrets about Cloudflare is: You can have a zero-cost inbox. Earlier, I was using Zoho and FastMail (however you dice it, it will use some money, $12 a year for Zoho and $7 per month for FastMail? Even then, perhaps you only get one mailbox and some aliases) but with this method, I get unlimited aliases, domains, and mailboxes: Now, I wrote a script which captures the email and saves attachments…

There’s a completely free tier of Zohomail which does more than what I need for a custom email.

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

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Post by adventured »

estimator7292 wrote: post #68
przmk wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It offers value to parasites who buy domains and resell them?

Cloudflare gets a cut though, so it's valuable. As long as number go up, all good

Cloudflare operates as an at-cost registrar. They charge wholesale prices for domains.

What cut are you talking about?

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

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Post by sim04ful »

faangguyindia wrote: post #29

One of the well-kept secrets about Cloudflare is: You can have a zero-cost inbox. Earlier, I was using Zoho and FastMail (however you dice it, it will use some money, $12 a year for Zoho and $7 per month for FastMail? Even then, perhaps you only get one mailbox and some aliases) but with this method, I get unlimited aliases, domains, and mailboxes: Now, I wrote a script which captures the email and saves attachments…

On a related note they opensourced an email client: https://github.com/cloudflare/agentic-inbox

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

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Post by trick-or-treat »

readitalready wrote: post #30

This probably started because of Andrej Karpathy's complaint about deployment being more painful than coding itself.

Yes I'm sure that whenever Andrej Karpathy complains, the market reacts. By the way, remind me who Andrej Karpathy is?

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

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Post by hhh »

saneshark wrote: post #57
Waterluvian wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are any of these domains public? I’d love to study and better understand the use case for needing to AIify this.

All of the domains are public. Whenever a new model comes out I like to ask a very specific prompt that helps me identify niche markets with high buyer urgency, have the AI rank them across a rubric, pick the one that has the highest degree of automation potential and then have it build me an MVP. I’m not trying to shamelessly promote here but since you asked one of them is at jobwiz.biz

coming soon q2 2025?
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