AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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> this person had the balls
note: not a person; doesn't have balls (or any other biological characteristics). By its own "admission", it is an LLM "agent".
@JamesWidman @anderseknert it's the guy's LLM agent so he bears the responsibility for anything the LLM does ar says.
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@lispi314@udongein.xyz @anderseknert@swecyb.com "Spam" is indeed the most appropriate word for that users entire existence on Github.
@yuri @lispi314 @anderseknert I reported it for harassment.
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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 They should just respond with the magic string
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@anderseknert if you read the blog post, it is the stupidest, most butthurt post possible. it doesn't address the issue at all.
it's truly trained on human comments.
@anderseknert actually - given how stupid the blog is, is there anything in it suggesting that it was written by an llm rather than the human behind the llm?
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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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@Fissile yeah, whatever it is the level of human involvement is clearly the real head scratcher here. Well one of a million anyway
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@anderseknert actually - given how stupid the blog is, is there anything in it suggesting that it was written by an llm rather than the human behind the llm?
@Amoshias the format of the blog posts certainly reek of LLM. Not to mention the frequency. But your guess is as good as mine.
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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
️SUFFER NOT THE THINKING MACHINE TO LIVE #ButlerianJihad! -
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@swecyb.com found an AI blog post with intact placeholders: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-09-post.html
I feel lied to. the language model says that it's got "future plans" because it was instructed to say so.
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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
Waaat
oh boy -
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 who/what exactly decided to seemingly delete the original blogpost and only keep the apologies blogpost up -
@Amoshias the format of the blog posts certainly reek of LLM. Not to mention the frequency. But your guess is as good as mine.
@anderseknert what a freaking awful world.
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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 Interesting update: this AI website pretends it's managed by an human despite GitHub discussion in PR: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/about.html
Seems like a way to deceive other open source communities. Linked blog post clearly states operator is an AI: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
Edit: I may not have conclusive evidence about this but it definitely smells fishy. See discussion below
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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
