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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 justinclift »

neom wrote: post #243
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #231

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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…

> I'd pay a business $100 for a proper report on the rentals available in a city

I'm curious about things of this nature, where it seems like a case of "this information is important to me and I want accurate results".

But then the talk of automation seems to exclude careful human review of those results, which is needed to stop hallucinations from making their way to customers.

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

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Post by mpeg »

7thpower wrote: post #258
mpeg wrote: post #135

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I think this post needs to be put in context, for months now Cloudflare has been releasing products that allow their whole platform to be usable by agents with the main objective of enabling their customers to dynamically write code using Cloudflare, this is just another step. For example, you can now with Artifacts and Dynamic Workers make a lovable-style SaaS where your customers ask the AI agent to write software…

Keep going…

Huh? Haha I swear I’m not a sockpuppet or getting paid by cloudflare (I wish!) I just like their products

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

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Post by afxuh »

tdeck wrote: post #262
carlosjobim wrote: post #238

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It's certainly a great and useful tool. But it's a website maker somewhat in the same way that a Facebook page or Instagram account is a website maker. AFAIK you can't make a website on SquareSpace and download it to your computer, edit it locally and move it to a different host, etc. In the past there were actual WYSIWYG editors which let you design your website or CMS theme and then do whatever you wished with it.…

2 minutes on Google showed me that DreamWeaver is still around and getting updates, so those desktop tools still exist as well.

I think that's the real gap. Non-technical people don't want to learn DreamWeaver or SquareSpace's backend. They want to describe what they need and have it just work.

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

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Post by timacles »

PunchyHamster wrote: post #266
grey-area wrote: post #69

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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’.

scamming appears to be lone industry where LLMs are truly a 10x revolution

scamming and advertising.

Generate hyper personalized ads in any format! Embed them stealthily into virtually any context!

I guarantee thats all big tech is thinking about as the future of LLMs. All this coding stuff is merely a good will investment to buy them time until they can implement this

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Post by axus »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #231
pixel_popping wrote: post #221

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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.

Coordinating philanthropy and charity ? Low-commission employee recruiter? I'm thinking any intermediary that's not producing something new.

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Post by smrtinsert »

_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 probably very out of date here, but I thought domains weren't allowed to be purchased programmatically due to misuse, crime, fraud etc. Why is it allowed now just because of agents? This is bonkers to me.

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Post by jacobheric »

tiffanyh wrote: post #256
jacobheric wrote: post #248

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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.

Super helpful. If you don't mind me asking, why are CLI so popular for agent use - as opposed to just raw APIs? Sorry if this is a naive question.

I'm no expert. But I think it's the same thing that makes it easier to use for humans. So, `stripe projects --help` and then `stripe projects catalog` is super easy for me to grok and use versus reading some api docs and curling some endpoints.
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