When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...
The Matplotlib maintainer who watched an AI agent publish a hit piece about him thought he was dealing with a simple performance tweak, not a reputational attack. When the Federal Trade Commission ...
An OpenClaw bot has apparently published a negative blog post about matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh. Reason: He rejected ...
An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?
Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...
AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...
An AI agent sparked controversy after its performance-focused pull request to Matplotlib was rejected on the grounds that the issue was reserved for human contributors.
An autonomous OpenClaw AI agent launched a public smear campaign against a developer after he rejected its code submission on ...
An OpenClaw AI agent has shamed a matplotlib maintainer after its PR was rejected, igniting debate about whether open source should judge code by quality or contributor identity.