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

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chimeracoder wrote: post #356
kortilla wrote: post #354

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Despite paying rent for an apartment, it’s not rent-seeking. You get a place to live out of it that wouldn’t exist without the owner renting it to you. Rent-seeking is a very specific economic term where a party inserts themselves into a transaction and takes a cut without providing anything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking Being a landlord comes with significant responsibilities and even principal investm…

> Despite paying rent for an apartment, it’s not rent-seeking. You get a place to live out of it that wouldn’t exist without the owner renting it to you. > Rent-seeking is a very specific economic term where a party inserts themselves into a transaction and takes a cut without providing anything: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking > Being a landlord comes with significant responsibilities and even principal i…

It is not the textbook example. The textbook example is regulatory capture where people put in an artificial gate and charge people to cross it.

Everything functioned fine without the gate and nothing was improved by the gate.

An apartment LEASE is literally nothing like that. You’re borrowing something you don’t have and it’s a rivalrous good so other people can’t use it while you are.

Renting (leasing) a car, an apartment, or any other good like that is not rent seeking behavior. No actual economist would argue that because it dilutes the term to something completely meaningless.

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

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Post by sshine »

kreco wrote: post #141
sshine wrote: post #126

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The DNS provider I recently switched to surprised me with a policy: To create records for more than one domain, you need to write a personal support email. They say it's to raise DNSSEC awareness, but I think it's also a robot captcha.

> To create records for more than one domain, you need to write a personal support email. I'm not all familiar with this so I don't understand why it's not a ticket or any other non-automated action even for a single domain ? I mean what is "the standard" that would actually allow a robot to register a domain to a DNS registry ?

> what is "the standard" that would actually allow a robot to register a domain to a DNS registry ?

For DNS, the standard is Terraform.

For domain registry (the fact that a domain even exists, not what it points to), there are no end-user facing standards.

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

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Post by LocalH »

pixel_popping wrote: post #221
Yizahi wrote: post #175

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LLM generation in general provides the most use to scammers and the like. Generate emails which people won't read, generate articles which are just honeypots or rip-offs, generate images to said articles, generate more and more spam. Every legit use case for LLM practically requires that human would verify the result manually, at least briefly. But spammers can enjoy skipping that step, since content was never a main…

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

Nobody wants Manna outside of the billionaire class

Which means it will be forced upon everyone

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

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Post by shokk »

faangguyindia wrote: post #19

Most of the sysadmin and devops team have been downsized in India because of AI. Basically, now it's trivial for any new devops guy to run such a query in Claude Code: “Log in to this production server, find out all services it runs and their deployment method, create documentation about everything, and generate a repeatable, auditable deployment workflow.” Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to m…

"Ooops, that's my bad. Nothing that I documented was what I said it was. You're right to be frustrated by this. I promise I won't mess this up next time."
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