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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 dragonelite »

riedel wrote: post #73
grey-area wrote: post #69

Earlier 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’.

And cloudflare can actually sell them priority access to pass their bot protection or introduce micropaiments for agents access content. I feel cloudflare is getting a bit scary tbh. It is like your friendly bot net.

It's the western great fire wall, good thing the things within the fire wall is huge and encapsulate still most of the world.

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

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Post by lionkor »

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…

You forgot "make no mistakes" and "don't hallucinate" and "don't delete any important files" as well, those are important.

I found that, without that, Claude makes too many critical mistakes.

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

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Post by nurettin »

They can do that now? I did that with agents since last summer. They also helped me set up aws and azure. It is such a pleasure to not having to read about their stupid platforms. What a security group is, what a vps is, what an eni and what a gateway is blah blah I just give the agent specs and access lists, then check it and it all just works.

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

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Post by lionkor »

awei wrote: post #130

This is an API. They now allow users to create accounts, buy domains and deploy from their api instead of going on the website. That's great. I am not sure I understand why all this complex protocol is needed though, especially now that you can generate a cli with a prompt.

A cli application is less complex than an API you send the literal string

"POST /some/api"

to?

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

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Post by efitz »

IANAL, but I wonder what it means for an agent to “agree” to terms of service or to “agree” to pay for something. Can agents enter into contracts?

It’s a straightforward technical problem to wrap an API or MCP or something around the “create an account” function.

But what will a court do when the agent creates a million accounts, mines bitcoin for a month, and then cannot or will not pay?

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

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Post by nailer »

_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.…

> Buying a domain is not something you have to do daily to require any kind of automation

I wrote a python client for dnsimple nearly 16 years ago to exactly that. If you can’t think of a reason it’s useful, you may wish to get your agent to buy a domain for some project you have asked to create.

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

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Post by M95D »

bojangleslover wrote: post #168

I don't understand the pessimism here. You never know the use cases for quickly and automatically rotating domains. There have always been bots, spammers and scammers. I'm interested to see what people build with this.

Well, let me guess... even more bots and new agentic spammers and scammers?
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