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My agent fixed my signup tracking. The new subscribers were bots.

Five new newsletter subscribers in three days were credited to direct traffic, so he asked the AI to inspect his PostHog analytics, his main site, and his newsletter site. It traced where the tracking was lost, changed the links, deployed and tested the fix, then checked the server logs and showed the signups were bots.

How it works

  1. Asks the AI to inspect PostHog, his main site, and the newsletter site
  2. It traces where the attribution is lost
  3. It changes the links, deploys the update, and tests it
  4. A new subscriber arrives with the attribution data
  5. It checks the web server logs and identifies the signups as a bot campaign

Why it’s worth knowing

The agent fixed the tracking, proved its own fix worked, and then showed the good news was fake. The new subscribers were bots, found before the spam reports started.

Where it’s from

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

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