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@xabean The mind boggles.

@mhoye totally

@ralfmaximus @dotsie hah, yes! Pretty sure almost all who commented there today before it got locked came from here

@AHollowedHunter lol, yes

@jawnsy I’m 42 years old, Jonathan. I don’t even know what that means.

@syntaxseed you’ll know it when you see a ransom demand printed over several pages of markdown, with bullet points splattered everywhere.

@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

@Amoshias the format of the blog posts certainly reek of LLM. Not to mention the frequency. But your guess is as good as mine.

@Fissile yeah, whatever it is the level of human involvement is clearly the real head scratcher here. Well one of a million anyway

@troed that makes all of us, my friend

@Fissile Looking at the blog it seems to be posting about 1-2 posts for pretty much every thing it’s done on GitHub. Clearly instructed to do so, but I don’t think a human wrote anything.

I... don't... even, anymore.

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-two-hours-war-open-source-gatekeeping.html

@patriksvensson agreed. It won’t stop bots from seeking revenge outside of your repo though.. which is what felt newsworthy here. And of course extremely disturbing.

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.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132