I received a notification from my VPS provider that my VPS was running at more than 90% CPU utilization, and when I checked the nginx logs I saw the following. I was effectively being DDOS’d by Dario’s (and his troupe of researchers)¹ ClaudeBot.

There has been a new term that I have seen being thrown around, that of ’thought leaders’. Not only is it an insulting term for everyone else, but it is also a very bad term to describe these people. A better phrase would be ’nth order regurgitator'.