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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2026
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If anyone ever wondered why I am constantly angry about AI its shit like this...
I was looking at options for securing a few services hosted behind a caddy reverse proxy and found a project with the very serious and official sounding name 'caddy-security'. To get started I tried to find some proper documentation for it and immediately found this announcement. In future, instead of a proper documentation you will get a bunch of files in the repos
.codex/skillsdirectory. These, according to the developer, help 'both humans and AI agents work with the codebase'. I don't know how this is supposed to help me because the files aren't linked to each other and are anything but proper documentation, but I guess they want me to point a slop agent at them and have it generate some security configuration for me.I have heard about caddy a couple times now from people seemingly new to hosting.
Can I ask why it's so popular when Apache httpd still works fine and has reasonable governance?
Well, I wouldn't call myself new to hosting, I used nginx before but switched because Caddy makes configuring HTTPS for my reverse proxy very convenient. I use it with this module which handles the ACME DNS challenge for creating and updating letsencrypt certificates for my internal domains.
I'm using acme.sh for that. It also supports Hetzner API btw.