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

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Wow, the amount of reactionary doomsaying in this thread is offputting. I built the Stripe Projects agentic provisioning integration (what this post is about) at Inngest and when I saw it actually work in action I thought it was actually kind of magical. Basically, hey agent, use my stripe account to provision a pro plan at Inngest, build me an app and deploy it. The agent does it and logs me into the Inngest dashboard. Agentic provisioning seems inevitable given the way we work now, and deferring to Stripe for kyc seems a reasonable way to do it.

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

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post #116

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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.

Are you sure you know what you're talking about here?

In the US, regulations on pensions, health insurance etc. are governed by the state that employees physically work in, not by the laws of the state of incorporation.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree frankly, as the next wave is clearly fully autonomous businesses.

I challenge you to explain a business plan for a fully automated business that isn't at least a bit shady.

Any business can be run in a shady manner if the human decided. One fully automated business I think could exist and might be useful is apartment/condo rental. I'd pay a business $100 for a proper report on the rentals available in a city that meet a criteria and are amalgamated from all the the various platforms. Doing it yourself (at least in Canada) means creating accounts on a bunch of platforms, and the process is very tedious.

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

#244

Wow, the amount of reactionary doomsaying in this thread is offputting. I built the Stripe Projects agentic provisioning integration (what this post is about) at Inngest and when I saw it actually work in action I thought it was actually kind of magical. Basically, hey agent, use my stripe account to provision a pro plan at Inngest, build me an app and deploy it. The agent does it and logs me into the Inngest dashboa…

As someone not well versed in these topics, would you mind helping me understand how this is different than an MCP for your onboarding & account provisioning APIs.

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

#245
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.…

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’.

I have a hobby or we could even say an addiction of having lota of ideas for various kinds of things. Part of the fun is inventing a name, visual identity, logo etc. and donain nane is part of it. Maybe they never reach production but many have. I have tools to automate boring parts like any developer would — and I could essily use something like this.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I disagree frankly, as the next wave is clearly fully autonomous businesses.

I challenge you to explain a business plan for a fully automated business that isn't at least a bit shady.

Market making?

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

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Infrastructure provisioning is a key ingredient of agentic AI viruses: https://www.ericburel.tech/blog/ai-virus-agent This may be the first steps of the worst wave of spamming campaign ever seen on the Internet. We'll need to reinvent how we connect and communicate via computers.

How? Getting domains has never been a barrier for malicious actors. You don’t even need agents.

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

#248

Wow, the amount of reactionary doomsaying in this thread is offputting. I built the Stripe Projects agentic provisioning integration (what this post is about) at Inngest and when I saw it actually work in action I thought it was actually kind of magical. Basically, hey agent, use my stripe account to provision a pro plan at Inngest, build me an app and deploy it. The agent does it and logs me into the Inngest dashboa…

As someone not well versed in these topics, would you mind helping me understand how this is different than an MCP for your onboarding & account provisioning APIs.

It's provisioning expressed as an API, but wrapped in a cli that agents can very easily use. Then anyone that implements the API is added to a marketplace of services. And the ability to pay for service is baked in because it's stripe. The end result is that as an engineer I can ask an agent to use the stripe cli to discover and provision, including paying for, a wide variety of services and it mostly just works.

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

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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.…

Typical engineer thinking.

If you want an end to end automation solution, you have to automate everything, not just high frequency tasks. It’s not acceptable to just say “oh you can automatically deploy a new site but first you have to register an account and buy a little domain”. The user command is “deploy site, right NOW”.

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