Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face

Drew DeVault, founder of SourceHut, describes spending 20-100% of his weekly work time mitigating aggressive LLM crawlers that ignore robots.txt, use rotating residential IPs, and mimic real user traffic. The crawlers cause dozens of brief outages per week, delay high-priority development tasks, and harm legitimate users. He draws parallels to past abuses: cryptocurrency miners exploiting SourceHut's CI infrastructure and the Go module mirror causing excessive git clone traffic. He calls on developers and users to stop building, using, and legitimizing LLMs and AI tools, citing environmental damage, labor exploitation, copyright violations, and the operational burden placed on small infrastructure operators.