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AI Crawlers Are Expensive. Agent Builders Should Care.

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On August 29, kernel.org administrator Konstantin Ryabitsev published an unusually concrete account of what automated traffic can cost a website. Across five geographically distributed servers with 90 CPU cores, he reported that 14–16 cores were continuously occupied rendering Git commit pages for…

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  1. 2026-09-01 03:10 · DEV Community — AI
    AI Crawlers Are Expensive. Agent Builders Should Care.

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