The AI slop is definitely less expensive for the author, as all the efforts are expended by CF's infrastructure, while the host sees zero requests. In the prev

The AI slop is definitely less expensive for the author, as all the efforts are expended by CF's infrastructure, while the host sees zero requests. In the previous discussions, one of the big AI problems was that they follow every link [0], including expensive ones like "git blame" view.. as well as "every commit of every log", which can be easily in millions if you have mirrors of few repos with many branches. It's simply impossible to cache this all at CloudFlare, and solution like AI maze (or outright blocking) seem like the only way. I feel you about "requests one-liners in python" - I am still running a few of those in crontab on some server.. but their time might be past. The "average guy" does not care about this kind of scripting, so we will get lumped together with evil AI and blocked. [0] https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externalizing-your-costs-on-me.html https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...