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bayganyo··on I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic
I like the spirit of this approach; make them suffer! But I'm surprised the bots wouldn't have reasonable timeouts to counteract. How long do they typically wait on these requests?

EDIT: sorry, that was a dumb question before reading your post. You actually learn the timeout they tolerate. Nice!

bayganyo··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
13 to 17 pro is a huge leap in performance, battery life, and camera features.
bayganyo··on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1
Me too. And it does it so often, that I've added a stop hook that detects "honest*" in its response and forces it to regenerate without the banned word.
bayganyo··on Oceans hit highest temperature on record
I see what you did there. Bravo.
bayganyo··on Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
I find it interesting how people justify (or not) whether to eat another animal.
bayganyo··on Claude: Degraded Performance for Multiple Models
Here we go again...
bayganyo··on Los Puesteros, solitary men who look after ranches and livestock in Patagonia
"At the End of the World" disambiguates it pretty well, I think.
bayganyo··on Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?
I’ve found its response verbosity to be mentally draining. It disregards claude.md instructions to keep responses short. Eventually, I added a stop hook that blocks it if it exceeds 150 words. It’s then forced to redo its output to comply, and it’s like night and day. I’ve also added stop hooks for words in its output that frustrate me, like “honest” or “honestly”.

The excessive comments in the code it writes are absurd. Completely ignores instructions not to write comments, even after pointing them out repeatedly in a session. I need to figure out how to add a stop hook for that too.

bayganyo··on Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
I feel the same way. It was fun at first but has gotten tiresome. Does anyone actually use these models to generate SVGs?
bayganyo··on Claude Login Down?
I'm getting 15000ms timeouts and OAuth 500 errors during /login too. This was happening yesterday around this time too. The desktop app seems to be unaffected (at least it's not making me log in).