Article note: Also delightful and hacky: zip bombs to punish aggressive web scrapers.
I feel like merging this technique with some of the LLM crawler traps would make for a lot of fun.
Structural engineering is the art of molding materials we don’t wholly understand, into shapes we can’t fully analyze, so as to withstand forces we can’t really assess, in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.