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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 nerdsniper »

lejalv wrote: post #116
ascorbic wrote: post #97

Earlier 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…

Lets remind the purpose of incorporating in Delaware is legal tax evasion, so that we don't not have pensions, health insurance or anything nice, really. Rename to Greedware.

The primary purpose of incorporating in Delaware is less about taxes and more that Delaware is the "Silicon Valley" of corporate law - incredible concentration of professionals, infrastructure, and intangibles. Any dispute you have will generally be handled better, faster, and cheaper by Delaware courts than they would be anywhere else. I'll quote my good friend who is a startup M&A lawyer: "I'd go so far as to say that it would be managerial malpractice to incorporate anywhere other than Delaware."

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

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Post by dizhn »

_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.…

This when their web GUI only allows buying one domain name at a time.

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

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Post by rco8786 »

_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.…

> I am also not sure who Stripe Atlas for.

This was such a weird mention to see in the article. Stripe Atlas is a service that helps new businesses incorporate and onboard onto Stripe/partner services with some startup credits. It's been around forever, has nothing to do with AI, and is generally a very well-respected service.

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

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Post by corentin88 »

Gigachad wrote: post #160
Mario9382 wrote: post #101

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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…

You would just get called from an agent (bot) based in your country. There’s no easy way to prevent that. Fraud is massive and it’s becoming cheaper and easier to run at scale.

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

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Post by faangguyindia »

twostorytower wrote: post #105
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.

yes but that's not good if you want programmatic inbound access which is what u need for many apps. That tier has no imap access.

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Post by cyanydeez »

dwroberts wrote: post #195
riedel wrote: post #73

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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.

This made me realise they’re doing the same thing the AI labs are doing: selling both the problem and the solution. They are arming spammers and scammers with these tools so you need their product to protect yourself from them

Welcome to the grift economy.

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Post by Gigachad »

corentin88 wrote: post #204
Gigachad wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You would just get called from an agent (bot) based in your country. There’s no easy way to prevent that. Fraud is massive and it’s becoming cheaper and easier to run at scale.

Then when it gets reported the authorities can just look up the owner of that number and arrest them. Vs overseas based operations that are difficult to follow up on.

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

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Post by carlosjobim »

tdeck wrote: post #95
compounding_it wrote: post #78

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> 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.

> People making cooking websites, websites for their garden, etc usually have nowhere to go. They've had WYSIWYG website builders since the late 1990s.

They don't have anymore. At least not since Artisteer shut down.
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