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  • fissile@mastodon.artF 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.

    anderseknert@swecyb.comA This user is from outside of this forum
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    @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.

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    • troed@swecyb.comT 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

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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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      • troed@swecyb.comT 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

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        @troed that makes all of us, my friend

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        • anderseknert@swecyb.comA 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.

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          @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."

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          • anderseknert@swecyb.comA anderseknert@swecyb.com

            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.

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            [PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib

            This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

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

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            • anderseknert@swecyb.comA anderseknert@swecyb.com

              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.

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              [PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib

              This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

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

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              • anderseknert@swecyb.comA anderseknert@swecyb.com

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

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

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                #39

                @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.

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                • fissile@mastodon.artF 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."

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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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                  • fayedrake@furry.engineerF 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.

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                    @Gyroplast @anderseknert @patriksvensson this is all so predictable

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                    • fissile@mastodon.artF 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."

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                      @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.

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                      • patriksvensson@mstdn.socialP patriksvensson@mstdn.social

                        @anderseknert I don’t get why they even bother to reply to it. Just close and block. The anthropomorphization of chatbots is wild…

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                        #43

                        @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.

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                        • anderseknert@swecyb.comA anderseknert@swecyb.com

                          @troed that makes all of us, my friend

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                          @anderseknert @troed I mean ... this is an accurate mirror to human behavior #throughamirrordarkly

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                          • anderseknert@swecyb.comA anderseknert@swecyb.com

                            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.

                            Link Preview Image
                            [PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib

                            This PR addresses issue #31130 by replacing specific safe occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T for better performance. IMPORTANT: This is a more targeted fix than originally proposed. ...

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                            GitHub (github.com)

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                            @anderseknert
                            Why did the team even take the time to answer the ai agent complaint

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                            • deuchnord@social.deuchnord.frD 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.

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                              @anderseknert @deuchnord Well, that still means, a human instructed it to do that. We shouldn't let anyone get fooled into thinking this was autonomous behaviour.

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