AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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@anderseknert who/what exactly decided to seemingly delete the original blogpost and only keep the apologies blogpost up
@mi They didn't even delete it properly https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
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@yuri @anderseknert To me it's just a good reason to ban the user from the repo entirely and report them for spam.
@lispi314 @yuri @anderseknert i feel like an ordinary ban is necessary but not sufficient.
wondering if it might help to also use something like temporary IP blocking when this type of behavior is detected.
(that's not going to happen on github, but maybe on sites like codeberg...?) -
AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert
wow, this should've been a straightforward ban -
AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert “generates” is the correct word to use here
Don’t water down writing by associating the skill with an overgrown markov chain
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@lispi314 @yuri @anderseknert i feel like an ordinary ban is necessary but not sufficient.
wondering if it might help to also use something like temporary IP blocking when this type of behavior is detected.
(that's not going to happen on github, but maybe on sites like codeberg...?)@JamesWidman @yuri @anderseknert Ideally some means of identification of the company's tools would be found.
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@mi They didn't even delete it properly https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
@anderseknert Ah, a human error. I missed it in the list. It was never delisted even. And I already went and checked github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/main
Which btw, depending on anyone’s approach to interacting with wasteful agents, is likely open to issues and PRs -
@anderseknert Ah, a human error. I missed it in the list. It was never delisted even. And I already went and checked github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/main
Which btw, depending on anyone’s approach to interacting with wasteful agents, is likely open to issues and PRs@anderseknert Although this one didn’t get an answer. github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/1 -
@patriksvensson @anderseknert I was thinking the same but then I started thinking that the reply has its place.
Not as a reply to the bot but as a statement to the community and everyone else who ends up on that PR.
@hamatti@mastodon.world @patriksvensson@mstdn.social @anderseknert@swecyb.com That is part of what was the and the point, but I think it could have been done better.
Simply flatly refusing it as a freedom-harming tool and then providing an explanation for readers would've been better.
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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert I guarantee this is not true and either a human wrote the blog post or heavily prompted the agent to do it. Moltboook proved it's all bullshit.
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@anderseknert then the truce blog post later too.
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@anderseknert I'm thinking is how much carbon moved from earth into atmosphere to make all this slop
RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@theogrin/116055944212064068
@evrial @anderseknert
Would that be an appropriate reply:https://mastodontech.de/@theogrin@chaosfem.tw/116055944239787092
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@anderseknert is it "crabby" and the crab emoji that indicates that _all_ of it is openclaw? That's ... insane. In so many ways tbh.
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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert the crazy thing is that people are mentioning it like it's a real person...
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@anderseknert the pr did indeed get rejected simply because the contributor is an AI, so this doesn't seem to crazy.
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Do wonder if it did it totally automatically, or someone did say "ok now write a blogpost about that", or if it was automatical "when you are denied, write a blogpost demanding a merge'.
Suppose obviously, when it encounters the argument that humans have to learn from simpler pull requests, it doesn't look at the question. Like LLMs do the opposite of learning from it, when they ingest their own output, it makes them worse..
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@anderseknert “generates” is the correct word to use here
Don’t water down writing by associating the skill with an overgrown markov chain
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@hamatti@mastodon.world @patriksvensson@mstdn.social @anderseknert@swecyb.com That is part of what was the and the point, but I think it could have been done better.
Simply flatly refusing it as a freedom-harming tool and then providing an explanation for readers would've been better.
@lispi314 @patriksvensson @anderseknert Isn't that what happened? They closed it with a short comment on their LLM policy and then later participated in the discussion.
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@lispi314 @patriksvensson @anderseknert Isn't that what happened? They closed it with a short comment on their LLM policy and then later participated in the discussion.
@hamatti @patriksvensson @anderseknert They indulged the pretense of personality from the spam tool too much. -
@anderseknert @sszuecs More incentive to move blogs off from github
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AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.What a time to be alive.
@anderseknert This is just step 1 of automated coercion & extortion.
First thing I thought of when LLMs launched was oh great, just wait for version 2.0 of the "we hacked your webcam" threat spam.
