Drew DeVault 3/17/2025

Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

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The article details the author's experience at SourceHut, where hyper-aggressive LLM crawlers are causing significant operational strain, leading to frequent outages and diverting development time. It compares this to past incidents of abuse, such as cryptocurrency mining on CI services and issues with the Go module mirror, framing them as examples of externalized costs forced onto smaller services.

Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

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