Infra engineer pushes back on 'unstoppable agent swarm DoS' fear-mongering
basedjensen · x · 2026-08-26
A security-minded post claimed a single agent can attack a website at 4,500 tokens per second and that no existing tools can defend against millions of such agent swarms — a 'next-generation DoS'. Infra practitioner basedjensen pushed back, arguing this capability has existed for decades and modern infrastructure already handles it, accusing fear-mongers of not understanding the modern infra stack.
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