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The AI caught bots draining my server and blocked them with no downtime

The AI saw that Caddy was nearly out of memory on his service, checked the traffic, and found bots hitting IP addresses his customers never use. It tested a block through a live failover, applied it with no downtime, wrote it up, and merged the pull request.

How it works

  1. The AI notices Caddy is nearly out of memory
  2. It investigates the traffic and finds bots hitting IP addresses customers never use
  3. It suggests blocking those addresses
  4. It tests the change through a live failover
  5. It applies the block with no downtime, documents it, and merges the pull request

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent ran the whole incident itself. It found the cause in the traffic, tested the fix on live traffic, and shipped it without the service going down.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on bsky.app. See the original ↗

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