I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI bot traffic

The author of the website sammystraus.com posted an article about their experience of being flooded with AI bot traffic after sharing a link to their site on Hacker News. The bots were detected by Cloudflare, which alerted the author that their site was receiving too many requests. The author estimates that the traffic surge was around 100-200 requests per second. The bots were deemed to be legitimate, but still excessive, and caused the site to become unresponsive. The author suggests that this is a common problem for websites that are shared on Hacker News.