Yes
Opus+Faable made easy work of it all, and ended up guiding some really slick improvements for performance
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dropped about 20% of all traffic
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Helped: Iterative hacking with architectural ideas in head.
Got in the way: Turnstile is a massive target for bots.
… I didn't know exactly what to build, but had some of the key architectural ideas in my head. Opus+Faable made easy work of it all, and ended up guiding some really slick improvements for performance. I would say this has dropped about 20% of all traffic to our service, though it turns out turnstile is a massive target for bots, so replacing that with something custom is next on the list.