Not that spammers couldn't do without this feature, but advertising it as a service is kinda weird.
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
#152The 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.…
A lot of good and interesting things started out as toys
We should build more toys
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#153What could go wrong?
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#154Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
People are skimping time in every part.
I am watching people who can't code build and deploy dashboards and sites with Claude Code (desktop app - they don't use the CLI), then go cap in hand to developer friends to get it hosted on a domain (rather than some Vercel or whatever URL).
Those people absolutely want to risk letting an agent buy and set up the domain.
This is not necessarily as blindly stupid as you might think. Many of these people know that this workflow is no good for writing code that does anything serious (i.e. storing data for people, taking payments, etc.) but there are a huge number of projects that are just websites, dashboard, data visualisations, etc. with static content and public APIs (Twitter is awash with them) and domains are cheap.
A decent minority of these are even quite cool or interesting.
So a lot of people want to put their vibe-coded weekend project behind a nice domain. Why not?
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#155The 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.…
I assume the constructive use case is some non-techy person asking ChatGPT.
> Hey, please make me a website about my dog woofy. Give it the link myfluffywoofy.dog ;) Thank you!
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#156[flagged]
Please don't fulminate on HN. The guidelines make it clear we're trying for something better here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perfect for spammers, scammers and domain squatters, who can now automate their activities even more. Can’t think of any other uses for this given the current state of LLM ‘agents’, though I can’t wait for the next report of something like ‘openclaw registered 1000 domains for me without asking and now cloudflare won’t refund me’.
The DNS provider I recently switched to surprised me with a policy: To create records for more than one domain, you need to write a personal support email. They say it's to raise DNSSEC awareness, but I think it's also a robot captcha.
Are you perchance talking about deSEC? I've also switched to them, and thought that it was too much work to send an email and wait for replies, so I ended up using dummy inboxes for my other, lesser important domains.
Though I guess it's still a good thing they do this? At the time I remember being mildly inconvenienced, but not enough to actually care. I just remember thinking, "How is this nonprofit going to handle all that support volume?".
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#158The 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.…
> to what end? People making cooking websites, websites for their garden, etc usually have nowhere to go. A web app who is an agent for a customer will then deploy agents in the backend to deploy the website too. Basically what one would do manually, you tell one agent to make another agent do it. Meta agents are where are going it seems.
Sadly they will be publishing on a web which has no human readers anymore because it’s been crowded out by 5 trillion AI slop gardening websites. And the only visitors will be other AI scraper bots.
Any actual readers will be on platforms which combat the bot spam.
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#159Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"
This is Cloudflare. They have an extremely strong incentive to increase bot usage. If there is no bot scrapping the internet they'll be out of business.
Re: Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy
#160The 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.
The likely outcome is that the phone system becomes massively more locked down. Your phone will only ring if the caller has a number which is backed by a real ID, particularly one from your own country. It will become increasingly difficult to contact someone you don’t have a legitimate connection to.
The banking system will become increasingly fraud resilient with better real time detection of fraud.
Your phone may even have its own AI on your side listening in on the call and sounding the alarm when a number from Nigeria starts using an AI voice pretending to be your son.