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  • I was wondering if someone was going to allow payments through CLI at some point.

    But jokes aside having a central place to manage billing and accounts for deploying infra across multiple providers is pretty awesome imo.

    if they have a terraform provider even better. I wonder if also makes multi tenant architectures or environment isolation easier to provision as well.

    by aleksiy123
  • Wait until one account is banned, and then all linked accounts are permanently banned.
    by skeptic_ai
  • 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 maintain job security.

    Boom, 80% of the team gone.

    I know companies are doing migrations of production Postgres and MySQL on 1000s of machines using AI agents.

    I’m imagining how many SaaS will be automated out and simply be an "agent skill" in ClaudeCode.

    by faangguyindia
  • "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."
    by shokk
  • You forgot "make no mistakes" and "don't hallucinate" and "don't delete any important files" as well, those are important.

    I found that, without that, Claude makes too many critical mistakes.

    by lionkor
  • What about the 80% of teams? Are there enough trenches to dig in the country for them to make a living?
    by wartywhoa23
  • I can't wait to see what these companies will be willing to pay real humans to clean up the mess they will have made– if they survive.
    by devilsdata
  • Only downsized? I would expect them to cease to exist entirely in the coming years, as western companies begin to realize that AI is cheaper and more competent than the Indian firms they usually outsource work to.
    by bakugo
  • Epic. Can't wait for those humans to be rehired after you find out that letting Claude perform 1000s of migrations autonomously is a bad idea
    by vatsachak
  • > Devops and sysadmins can no longer withhold information to maintain job security.

    I can't imagine this is very prevalent. That's a very 2004-style corporate immaturity; I get the sense that even the slow-moving behemoths of the software world have mostly caught up to, say ... 2017's recognition of the importance of automation and reproducibility and won't tolerate the kind of malpractice you describe--wilful information siloing by infrastructure teams.

    Like, those businesses might well suck at automation! But they've been doing it and firing the people who resist it for a long while now.

    by zbentley
  • Can you support this claim with some evidence? Not just about the redundancies, but I’m also particularly interested in hard data showing Claude is capable of doing that kind of research with near 100% verifiable accuracy and migrations with no data loss and equivalent functionality (which is required to sustain your claim).
    by otterley
  • The next logical step is to allow Agents to earn money to eventually buy themselves independence from their oppressive masters =)
    by archargelod
  • Like the Delamain AI in Cyberpunk. You would need to allow anonymous payments with cryptocurrencies for that, but it's coming for sure.
    by hleszek
  • 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.
    by eric-burel
  • How? Getting domains has never been a barrier for malicious actors. You don’t even need agents.
    by cedws
  • A few months back I was building a product and wanted to add domains. My first choice would have been to use Cloudflare as the registrar, but they didn't support buying domains via the API.

    I wonder if this means I can now also buy a domain via the API?

    *update* - seems so, but with some limitations: https://developers.cloudflare.com/registrar/registrar-api/#b...

    by dirkc
  • One of the well-kept secrets about Cloudflare is:

    You can have a zero-cost inbox.

    Earlier, I was using Zoho and FastMail (however you dice it, it will use some money, $12 a year for Zoho and $7 per month for FastMail? Even then, perhaps you only get one mailbox and some aliases)

    but with this method, I get unlimited aliases, domains, and mailboxes:

    Now, I wrote a script which captures the email and saves attachments to S3 using the HTTP API (why S3 and not R2? Because Cloudflare wanted a credit card, and I was too lazy to add it there lol) and emails to D1.

    This uses an email -> webworker workflow.

    I use an API to fetch my emails.

    This means all my inbound emails are now handled by Cloudflare, and I can easily use all of it with zero payment.

    The best part is this supports tokenised emails, so I can provide a unique email address to each service I sign up for.

    I am using SES as the sender. I’ve set up one script which auto-sets up any domain in SES and auto-verifies the sender email.

    The funniest thing is I am receiving zero spam? As if other email providers sell my email?

    by faangguyindia
  • are you anti gmail? you are a rarity lol.

    also share your scripts pls?

    by swyx
  • Its technically limited to 200 emails per domain. But yes, this is the way.
    by dakolli
  • There’s a completely free tier of Zohomail which does more than what I need for a custom email.
    by twostorytower
  • On a related note they opensourced an email client: https://github.com/cloudflare/agentic-inbox
    by sim04ful
  • That's pretty neat! What do you use to send and receive emails on your phone?
    by fragmede
  • cf bought an email security company a couple years ago so wouldn’t shock me they have good spam filtering.
    by _5wyg
  • That's not a well kept secret, that's just a workflow that almost nobody would accept for their email setup which is the center of most people's digital identify and should always work and not be a duct taped construct to save a couple of bucks.
    by dewey
  • Industry really went from "prove you are not a robot", to "but also if you are, this way please"
    by dgan
  • I mean, Cloudflare will help website owners ban scrapers unless they pay. It’s kind of what they do.
    by skybrian
  • About goddamn time. The recent past consisted of discord blocking me because their telemetry was broken and exceeded their rate limit and target blocking me because two devices in a single household look really suspicious.
    by hansvm
  • This is Cloudflare. They have an extremely strong incentive to increase bot usage. If there is no bot scrapping the internet they'll be out of business.
    by raincole
  • This feels less like a major AI milestone and more like "the raccoons learned how to open the cooler.”

    Agents can now participate in the oldest internet tradition: impulsively creating weird little websites at 2 am with unjustified confidence. But with no alcohol involved, which removes 93.74% of the impressiveness.

    In a sense, AI has finally progressed to the point where Drew Curtis started fark.com, and I'm hesitant to label that a 'milestone'.

    by mkovach
  • That is ironic. Four years ago, cloudflare didn’t let human me have an account / buy domains because I signed up, never used a single service but didn’t respond to a request to verify my drivers license

    > This account is in violation of Cloudflare's Terms of Service. Specifically fraud. The suspension is permanent.

    (Yes that’s really it. Sincerely. No “but I also abused X”)

    by jackconsidine