it's called not having a vibecoded app that falls to pieces on public endpoints ...

mattl · 2025-07-03T00:56:06 1751504166

Nobody is talking about a vibe coded app. I want to block AI scrapers entirely.

1oooqooq · 2025-07-04T11:11:14 1751627474

point is, why do you care if your site can handle the traffic?

there's no (malicious) bot detection that won't impact a portion of real users. accept that fact and just let it be.

poisoning data in ways that's obvious to the false positive user is a much better option.

mattl · 2025-07-04T15:38:36 1751643516

I really doubt any legit user is using a weird user agent and an IP address in the same AS as an AI slop crawler

1oooqooq · 2025-07-04T19:40:23 1751658023

You'd be surprised. Your users too, but you wouldn't know because they will not be able to tell you.