Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand
Simon Willison encountered Cloudflare's "Managed Challenge" CAPTCHA system, which was overly aggressive in blocking legitimate search engine traffic. By using Claude Code, he devised a more nuanced rule that only triggers the CAPTCHA for search queries containing an ampersand, thereby allowing simpler searches to proceed without interruption. This adjustment was made to prevent aggressive crawling of his faceted search engine. AI
IMPACT Fine-tuning of security rules can improve user experience and reduce false positives for AI-driven security systems.