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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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What about SquareSpace and the like?

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.…

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

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All of the domains are public. Whenever a new model comes out I like to ask a very specific prompt that helps me identify niche markets with high buyer urgency, have the AI rank them across a rubric, pick the one that has the highest degree of automation potential and then have it build me an MVP. I’m not trying to shamelessly promote here but since you asked one of them is at jobwiz.biz

coming soon q2 2025?

Yeah, this was one that reached a level of maturity where I quickly lost interest. I like to build. I don’t like to market.

beta.jobwiz.biz

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

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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’.

The only use case that pops into my mind is to build a product like Shopify that sets up a store, email, landing page, etc all from one chat-bot interface.

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

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The future is the internet will be entirely bot activity and humans will ether be strapped in to the metaverse reels ai slop feed or they will be outside interacting with people in person again. Both of these seem like likely futures and probably both at the same time.

This reality also crystalized for me earlier this week when I saw a post about unchecked AI slop videos about WWE being posted to YouTube. Many of the videos suffer from the LLM stroking out (for lack of a better term) and devolving into mumbling, screaming and white noise. Yet, the comments are replete with obvious bot content which doesn't mention this at all and talks past the larger, flimsy narrative on display (…

Here's the post I was referring to: https://bsky.app/profile/ompu.co/post/3mkjnnvvupk2b

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

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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.

AI models have better tool latching on a `bash` tool than they do MCP tools.

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

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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 was about to say, this type of automated domain purchasing and deployment is a godsend to scammers.

They buy up a bunch of .top, .shop and .xyz domains for $1 each. They spam them out in in all those "USPS tracking" spam text and Facebook fake store ads. The shelf life on these domains is a few days at best before they get shut down, now you can automate domain rotation and not have to pause your spam campaigns.

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

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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.

An average SaaS?

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

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Welcome to the grift economy.

state did this for centuries or longer btw. they create violence/war in some area of the planet, then offer to "fix it". like wmd's in iraq and hormuz problem now, lmao. remember how hormuz was not a problem and it was wideoy peaceful and open months ago? lol

you can just say "Society"; it's bizarre people think there's some magic to governance that's above in beyond people forming groups and rules.
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