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Cloudflare is in the S&P500. If you have a 401k diversified in broad market indexes then most likely… you are a shareholder.
No, Cloudflare does not meet the criteria for inclusion in the S&P 500.
Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
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Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
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I’m running entire leadjobs.dev on cloudflare workers and its kind of unreliable for the traffic it gets - around 100 visitors/day. There are some weird errors in d1 from time to time which i cannot debug since its all black box. Also latencies are greater than I would expect, especially, again for d1. Overall its great value for money to get a globally available, low latency service - but I would think twice before…
I'll let you in on a sort of dirty secret: It's almost always better to use Durable Objects storage, rather than D1. Even if you only want a single global database, it's better to implement that as a singleton Durable Object, than by using D1. Because that's all D1 itself actually is: a singleton Durable Object that exposes an API to its SQLite database. It's just a wrapper. With raw Durable Objects, you get to bring…
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
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> Unless the agent creates something for cf workers from scratch The latest models appear to know CF Workers inside out and are very capable of doing that if you ask them to. Here's my GPT-5.5 xhigh + Codex Desktop transcript building one just now: https://gist.github.com/simonw/264bd6b8a39fc34c91c9c867454c6... - code here: https://github.com/simonw/cloudflare-redirect-resolver
I didnt say LLMs dont know cf workers, I meant that the cf workers runtime is kind of unique and you cannot push there any code without making it cf workers ready in the first place. If you know what youre doing it should be one time step to connect your hono app to cf workers (so not a huge effort) but still its not like tou can run anything there
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
#74Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder. Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.
Turnstiles per minute.
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
#75Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder. Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.
Are you still reading webpages personally instead telling your AI to do it?
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
#76Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder. Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.
Turnstile isn't something Cloudflare put up to annoy you. It's what the website owners decided to put up, for many different reasons.
In the same vein, Anubis has a default configuration that lets honest scrapers and crawlers through, because those can easily be rejected by basic web server configurations. Only scrapers pretending to be browsers need to solve the proof-of-work puzzle. You can disable that feature, of course.
Cloudflare may play this smart: force bots to pay for access, then take 30% of the cut and give the rest to the website owners. That way, websites get paid when the AI slop machine digests their content. Normal visitors get in for free, turn the scraper hellscape into a sustainable model. Bonus points for letting websites set their own rates (pre-declared to scrapers, of course) to dissuade all but the most interested scrapers.
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
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Are you still reading webpages personally instead telling your AI to do it?
Maybe your agent could have a little blog where it keeps a diary of cool pages it read for you? And then you subscribe to that?
I went for a personal newsfeed, agent pulls news form ~100 feeds related to my interests. Then reads all articles for me and orders them by how interesting they might be for me. I specifically asked for vector embeddings, up/down votes (-2..+2), visited status, LLM content evaluation. Probably there are some other mechanisms I didn't even bother to check. It's a work in progress but I can see myself replacing most of my news reading with it. For many news the AI summary, which contains main idea behind the item is enough for me. As a bonus it resolves clickbait and is quite good at it. Also no ads, ever. For sure I need to implement some grouping because when the popular story breaks I have many stories about the same thing with mostly overlapping details. AI merging them would be quite cool.
I also asked AI to extract my interests from my browsing/watching histories of my all accounts. V2 of my newsfeed might utilize that somehow for better results.
Silly thing is I made it in one afternoon with my only motivation of being slightly more annoyed with the web on that day.
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
#78Would love to know more about how Cloudflare plans to prevent abuse of ephemeral infrastructure to host malicious content. From elsewhere in their documentation, “Cloudflare limits how quickly you can create temporary preview accounts. If the Wrangler CLI cannot create an account because too many temporary preview accounts were requested too quickly, wait before retrying or authenticate the CLI with a permanent Cloud…
> Would love to know more about how Cloudflare plans to prevent abuse of ephemeral infrastructure to host malicious content If it helps laugh DDoS attacks they would be incentivized to do the exact opposite. They can charge more for “protection” then.
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
#79Cloudflare: let's give the bots their own accounts so they can scrape harder. Also Cloudflare: let's send normal humans who are trying to go about their daily lives into endless Turnstile spinner loops with absolutely zero recourse, grievance, or support infrastructure.
If all bots are subject to a rate limit, then the system works as designed. Especially if site operators can block bot accounts. Requiring accounts is one of the easiest solutions for that problem. One of the large issues with scrapers is that they pretend to be normal internet visitors that never visited your site before, because any bot that stored cookies would immediately be rate limited by basic config. Turnstil…
Re: Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents
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I just tried this out: % npx wrangler deploy --temporary wrangler 4.103.0 ──────────────────── You must accept Cloudflare's Terms of Service (https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/) and Privacy Policy (https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/) in order to continue. By typing "yes", you agree to these terms. Type "yes" to continue. … yes Solving proof-of-work challenge… Temporary account ready: Account: Educated Celery (c…
> I'm amused that it made me accept the terms and conditions without any indication of who I am as far as i’m aware, that’s fully binding and often an accepted practise - take Minecraft’s server software, where you must accept the EULA with a text flag before running