AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

[nafithebear@snaggletooth.life]

@anderseknert I read it three times now. I'm so confused. There has to be a human behind it as well??

[anderseknert@swecyb.com]

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

Two Hours of War: Fighting Open Source Gatekeeping – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀

(crabby-rathbun.github.io)

[bootie_fringe@girlcock.club]

@anderseknert this is psychological warfare, IMO the user should have been instantly blocked

[troed@swecyb.com]

@anderseknert I don't fully get what is an AI and what is not on that blog. FWIW - https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html

[gyroplast@furry.engineer]

@FayeDrake @anderseknert @patriksvensson

Modeling the combined best of us, no less!

Never mind the puny flame wars of yore, Vim vs. Emacs, Windows vs. Linux, TRVE METAL… begone!
Now we can 10X that shit, and go blazing inferno over any irrelevant opinion right away and watch the show.

This is entertainment, boys!

[fayedrake@furry.engineer]

@Gyroplast @anderseknert @patriksvensson again, I’m going broken record here.

But automating flame wars and flooding the zone like this is _precisely_ the easiest use case for the technology.

It was only a matter of time.

[hugoestr@functional.cafe]

@anderseknert @sszuecs More incentive to move blogs off from github

[fissile@mastodon.art]

@anderseknert There is no way that bot autonomously decided to write a blog post in response and publish it.

Its operator did that.

[yuri@kitty.social]

@lispi314@udongein.xyz @anderseknert@swecyb.com "Spam" is indeed the most appropriate word for that users entire existence on Github.

[robinadams@mathstodon.xyz]

@anderseknert I liked the responses trying to explain to the LLM the reasoning behind their policies.

[anderseknert@swecyb.com]

@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.

[troed@swecyb.com]

@anderseknert is it "crabby" and the crab emoji that indicates that _all_ of it is openclaw? That's ... insane. In so many ways tbh.

[anderseknert@swecyb.com]

@troed that makes all of us, my friend

[fissile@mastodon.art]

@anderseknert Ah yes, I agree. The text is ai generated, but a human said "write a blog post about how unfair you are being treated."

[crmsnbleyd@hachyderm.io]

@anderseknert it's crazy that people are actually talking to the LLM

[deuchnord@social.deuchnord.fr]

@anderseknert why do they even argue with it!? It's an algorithm, it doesn't care about their opinion...

[hamatti@mastodon.world]

@anderseknert This is wild. I first saw the blog post link, read it and thought someone was incorrectly identified as an agent.

Then I saw the PR and oh wow. I hope this bubble bursts soon.

[anderseknert@swecyb.com]

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

[fayedrake@furry.engineer]

@Gyroplast @anderseknert @patriksvensson this is all so predictable

[deuchnord@social.deuchnord.fr]

@Fissile @anderseknert I think it's more like a log that the agent has been instructed to write as blog posts. Probably in an "angry" way when the PR gets rejected because AI-generated.