Claude Helps Catch a Traffic Bot
ThePenguinVA · reddit · 2026-07-12
The author used Claude to build an internal analytics dashboard to investigate website data anomalies. They discovered a bot had been targeting specific pages since late May, inflating daily active users by over 100%.
With Claude's help, they troubleshot the issue, tightened internal settings, and locked down Cloudflare configurations. The bot activity ceased after a few hours, with Claude even quipping, "the motherfucker has been killed," which the author found hilarious.
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