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Posted by rolph 9 hours ago

Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy(blog.cloudflare.com)
380 points | 206 commentspage 3
khalic 2 hours ago|
Worst idea I’ve seen all week, I’d rather have the opposite, and I’m an AI developer so not even against it
NikolaosC 3 hours ago||
This is the OAuth moment for agents. Identity attestation + scoped payment token + provisioned account in one call. Standard's forming faster than people think.
wild_pointer 4 hours ago||
Not that spammers couldn't do without this feature, but advertising it as a service is kinda weird.
jakebasile 8 hours ago||
As a user of the internet I can only imagine this worsening my experience by allowing even more slop to permeate the network's every orifice.

Also, when an agent sets up a domain, who is the domain owner? Who responds to takedown requests? What if it then decides to host illegal content at the domain (generated or otherwise). Who is responsible? Agents aren't (yet) legal persons, so it must be the person who owns the agent, but if that person never even sees the legal agreement being agreed to how would it hold up in court? If the person didn't direct the creation or hosting of illegal content, what then?

idank 8 hours ago||
Humans will not win in court with a "but the agent did it, I had no idea" argument. Just look at how the cases against OAI are going, and that's where families lose a loved one. There's not going to be any sympathy when your agent committed fraud on your behalf.

And it's not like pro agent companies have a reason to self regulate. They're not going to absorb that liability voluntarily, they'll push it onto users contractually (most of them already do). This is just another channel to bring in customers. They will capitalize ruthlessly to increase their bottom line.

zelon88 8 hours ago|||
> There's not going to be any sympathy when your agent committed fraud in your behalf.

Good thing the fraud is committed in places that specifically don't prosecute fraud when it's targeted against Western countries.

skeptic_ai 7 hours ago|||
Fraud requires intention
14 7 hours ago||
Interesting questions you bring up. Especially the legal ramifications as to how it would fully work within current legal framework. I suppose there would be a broad disclaimer and agreement one would have to agree to that would state that users of the service are ultimately responsible to monitor and ensure websites deployed by agents comply with local laws. Ultimately I assume that since it is not the agent who pays but a registered user that the user would own the site. And that the legal agreement would be agreed to beforehand so it is legally binding.
schpet 7 hours ago||
why does cloudflare not allow existing users to create new accounts? you basically need to use a burner email and transfer it afterward. makes it awkward to use this on new projects that you want independent of your existing accounts.
saneshark 8 hours ago||
Claude has been buying domains and deploying to Vercel for me using aws cli, vercel cli, and gh cli since December. Personally I prefer a cli to an MCP server for this type of thing.
Waterluvian 8 hours ago||
Are any of these domains public? I’d love to study and better understand the use case for needing to AIify this.
saneshark 7 hours ago|||
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

fragmede 7 hours ago|||
Your SSL cert needs to be rotated.
hhh 5 hours ago|||
coming soon q2 2025?
threethirtytwo 8 hours ago|||
It’s not AIifying one thing. It’s AIifying the entire work flow… every detail. Allowing domain names is just one aspect of it.

The agent does everything. “Make a website that does…“ and it can handle everything from start to finish. It’s that good now.

SpicyLemonZest 7 hours ago||
The question was what's in the dots. I have no doubt that agentic systems are good enough to buy domains and make one-shot websites from a prompt, but what is the legitimate use case for which you'd want to repeatedly perform "Make a website that does..." on a new domain?
fragmede 7 hours ago||
"Legitimate"? What scams are you implying are happening? A friend of mine wanted a site to help him sell DJ lessons. Another friend has a haircutting business that wanted a better site. Massage therapy. Etc.
aykutseker 5 hours ago||
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readitalready 7 hours ago||
This probably started because of Andrej Karpathy's complaint about deployment being more painful than coding itself.
trick-or-treat 5 hours ago|
Yes I'm sure that whenever Andrej Karpathy complains, the market reacts. By the way, remind me who Andrej Karpathy is?
arjie 9 hours ago||
Fascinating. This is through Stripe rather than wrangler or anything. Coding agents were pretty good at handling the Cloudflare API already with an API key, but I think this thing that Stripe is doing by being the central hub through which all agent stuff goes by integrating with their CLI is a pretty good move for them.
joemazerino 8 hours ago|
Buying the domain is the key here.
baalimago 7 hours ago||
Genius! Automate the flow for making customers spend money.
hansmayer 5 hours ago|
If the genius who came up with this idea is reading this: Nobody asked for this feature.
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