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║ Sat, 29 Aug 2026 11:25:31 -0500 ║
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Creepy crawlies August 29, 2026 You've probably heard me complain about the “AI
crawlers” before, but now I actually have some hard numbers I can put up to show their
impact. In a few words, it's bad enough to create a constant “background radiation” of
system load, permanently tying up a chunk of capacity spent on producing output that is
only useful for a single purpose — feeding a learning model. TL;DR: we spend more CPU
cycles rendering commits for scrapers than we spend on all other kinds of legitimate
access, including git clones. At any one time, across 5 geo-distributed nodes, there
are 14 CPU cores doing nothing but rendering git commits as html. Why is git.kernel.org
“interesting” to crawlers Linux development happens in the open — from git repositories
you can clone, to discussion archives you can follow in real time. To a large language
model, this is a goldmine of learning d
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