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I wish blockers would distinguish between crawlers that index, and agentic crawlers serving an active user's request. npm blocking Claude Code is irritating




Agentic crawlers are worse. I run a primary source site and the ai "thinking" user agents will hit your site 1000+ times in a minute at any time of the day

I think of those two, agentic crawlers are worse.



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