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Wrangler

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Cloudflare put a cache in front of Workers — and quietly started billing free requests (blog.cloudflare.com)

The surprise is in the invoice: requests that used to be free, like static assets and worker-to-worker calls over service bindings, now bill at the standard request rate because each one first checks the cache.

One developer's flat verdict on the new charges: 'that sounds like a bug that just happens to generate them more money.'

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Cloudflare built throwaway accounts so AI agents can deploy, and humans quietly got free 60-minute previews (blog.cloudflare.com)

`wrangler deploy --temporary` provisions a working account with no registration, live for 60 minutes, claimable into a permanent one via a link. The failure message tells the agent the flag exists, so it self-discovers the path.

One developer called handing deploy control to a non-deterministic process 'madness'. The simpler objection: humans get pushed into endless Turnstile loops while bots get a frictionless lane.