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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 j45 »

_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.…

It might be.

It’s already been possible for a very long time to do all these steps via api, using Cloudflare and/or other domain registrars.

The manual steps you take is what you do, and the sequencing you learn is critical as it might not be simply from start to finish.

It can be simplified as a sequenced bash script using clis across all the services.

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

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_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.…

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

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Post by w10-1 »

datsci_est_2015 wrote: post #223
nojs wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Solid insight. What was once profane is now sacred. And it feels like it happened overnight. Lots to ponder on that. The catalyst is probably the consent of payment processors, if I had to speculate.

The catalyst may be the upcoming elections.

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

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Post by lugao »

I recently tried buying a domain in cloudflare, they refused the payment -- even using my account which I use actively for years -- tried to pay with paypal, no luck. Went to porkbun and bought the same domain in 5 minutes and pointed it to cloudflare name server.

Maybe they should fix the regular flow before automating it with agents?

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

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Post by tremon »

_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 is simply Cloudflare seeing the possibility of an infinite stream of income... these APIs are cheap to execute for them but are always tied to billing.

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

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Post by yieldcrv »

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…

Sounds valuable, it can issue shares onchain and distribute profits - after a cumbersome fiat settlement and transfer stage - enabling the market and researchers to get price discovery on this sector finally

Instead of extrapolating only from reported fraud by victims

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

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Post by bjacobel »

konschubert wrote: post #197
_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’m not saying that you’re wrong. But it’s worth noting that any good technology starts off being called a toy and with most people not being able to imagine its usefulness.

There are also a lot of bad technologies that start off being called a toy and then just die. Many more, I'd wager.
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