Rate limits, explained: the guardrail every vibe coder forgets

Lesson 6 of when it breaks: the one guardrail vibe coders skip until the bots or the bill arrive. What a rate limit is, why every public app needs… Aliteq Sam Ortega · Build Editor

A rate limit caps how many requests are allowed per time window

Every public app needs one to survive bots, abuse and runaway code

Unlimited endpoints mean runaway bills or outages; the Moltbook breach is the cautionary tale

Any public endpoint, a login, a signup, an AI feature, needs a sensible cap (say, a set number of requests per minute per user or per address). Your host or auth provider usually offers this. Ask…

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