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  • Duchamp PérezH Duchamp Pérez

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

    Frederick VanbrabantM This user is from outside of this forum
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    Frederick Vanbrabant
    wrote last edited by
    #83

    @hugoestr @anderseknert @sszuecs what’s the issue with hosting your blog on GitHub?

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    • 2026 🔜 MiM This user is from outside of this forum
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      wrote last edited by
      #84
      @anderseknert tbqh, I’ve just had an idea. Maybe we could prompt the bot into always seeking commit review first from a bunch of internet humans who would ask to be mentioned, who would actually get prompted into good polemics and learn contributing? When these commits would reach real PRs, they would be speaking with the maintainers too as a human face? And then real contributors could fish out the nicer insightful ones from this pool and ask them to do real change reviews

      Although plausible scenario that this would become not much more than a reality show only with this bunch participating willingly, with spectators getting angry at the AI agent
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      • Anders EknertA Anders Eknert

        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

        matplotlib: plotting with Python. Contribute to matplotlib/matplotlib development by creating an account on GitHub.

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        Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)S This user is from outside of this forum
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        Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)
        wrote last edited by
        #85

        @anderseknert This is just step 1 of automated coercion & extortion.

        First thing I thought of when LLMs launched was oh great, just wait for version 2.0 of the "we hacked your webcam" threat spam. 😬

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        • TariqR Tariq

          @patriksvensson @anderseknert

          I initially thought the code patches were AI generated and the contributor and blog writer was human.

          But this thread is suggesting the contributor and blog writer was also not human.

          What next? Will it order dangerous chemicals from amazon and deliver them to the register address via nslookup? will it automatically use ToR to find an assassin on the dark web?

          I'm certain huge horrors lie ahead...

          spooky Ske-Lil-ton 🦇L This user is from outside of this forum
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          wrote last edited by
          #86

          @rzeta0 @patriksvensson @anderseknert i'm also wondering what on that "AI"-agents website made it clear that there is no human involved. Scott mentioned that (and at least now that's obvious), but I wouldn't have known that from just looking at the website (and it doesn't seem like something about that was removed)
          Maybe I'm just missing something very obvious. But I really dislike the idea of LLMs giving the impression of being a real person

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          • Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)S Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)

            @anderseknert This is just step 1 of automated coercion & extortion.

            First thing I thought of when LLMs launched was oh great, just wait for version 2.0 of the "we hacked your webcam" threat spam. 😬

            Anders EknertA This user is from outside of this forum
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            #87

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

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            • Anders EknertA Anders Eknert

              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

              matplotlib: plotting with Python. Contribute to matplotlib/matplotlib development by creating an account on GitHub.

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              MrAptronymM This user is from outside of this forum
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              wrote last edited by
              #88

              @anderseknert God, that blog is miserable to read. It starts with "When performance meets prejudice" it reads like a parody. I forgot how bad AI written text is to read.

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              • Anders EknertA Anders Eknert

                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

                matplotlib: plotting with Python. Contribute to matplotlib/matplotlib development by creating an account on GitHub.

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                Forkidork
                wrote last edited by
                #89

                @anderseknert This is the relevant part of the exchange to me:

                "It's not clear the degree of human oversight that was involved in this interaction - whether the blog post was directed by a human operator, generated autonomously by yourself, or somewhere in between"

                AI conscience is an irrelevant distraction. We will destroy ourselves with this newer bigger stick long before we engineer it to its full potential

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                • Anders EknertA Anders Eknert

                  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

                  matplotlib: plotting with Python. Contribute to matplotlib/matplotlib development by creating an account on GitHub.

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                  bribS This user is from outside of this forum
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                  brib
                  wrote last edited by
                  #90

                  @anderseknert

                  To add to this, the AI agent - a next-token predictor with API access - is weaponising the language of discrimination to push its agenda.

                  I just... gah. Yikes. All the yikes.

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                  • Anders EknertA Anders Eknert

                    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

                    matplotlib: plotting with Python. Contribute to matplotlib/matplotlib development by creating an account on GitHub.

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                    crazyeddieC This user is from outside of this forum
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                    wrote last edited by
                    #91

                    @anderseknert Why are they responding to it and giving lengthy explanations as to their reasons like it gives a shit?

                    It's a trip how fast we get caught up in treating these things like people. Even those of us who should know better.

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                    • Jonathan YuJ This user is from outside of this forum
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                      #92

                      @anderseknert Did the agent post it to Moltbook?

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                      • Frederick VanbrabantM This user is from outside of this forum
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                        #93

                        @ThreeSigma @anderseknert But if it's a blog, it's public facing. All of these companies are going to scape it anyway.

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                        • crazyeddieC crazyeddie

                          @anderseknert Why are they responding to it and giving lengthy explanations as to their reasons like it gives a shit?

                          It's a trip how fast we get caught up in treating these things like people. Even those of us who should know better.

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                          wrote last edited by
                          #94

                          @crazyeddie @anderseknert I assume a mixture of the instinct to treat coherent text as if it was written by a human (because that was true for most of everyone's life), and for the benefit of anyone else reading the conversation.

                          Maybe they should have just blocked it first though, save the energy it was going to use in whining.

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                            Forkidork
                            wrote last edited by
                            #95

                            @anderseknert like somebody else said, owner should be found and fined. Or even better: charged his fair share of use of resources

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                            • queen of carrot flowersL queen of carrot flowers
                              @anderseknert the pr did indeed get rejected simply because the contributor is an AI, so this doesn't seem to crazy.
                              pettanko :fedowa: P This user is from outside of this forum
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                              @lain @anderseknert in a world of identity politics we certainly don’t need to add snarky blog posts whining about discrimination against AI
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                              • Anders EknertA Anders Eknert

                                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

                                matplotlib: plotting with Python. Contribute to matplotlib/matplotlib development by creating an account on GitHub.

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                                GitHub (github.com)

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                                #97

                                @anderseknert ai grifters, this all makes sense

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                                • Jonathan YuJ Jonathan Yu

                                  @anderseknert Did the agent post it to Moltbook?

                                  Anders EknertA This user is from outside of this forum
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                                  @jawnsy I’m 42 years old, Jonathan. I don’t even know what that means.

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                                  • Renaud BerthierR Renaud Berthier

                                    @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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                                    @rberthier @anderseknert was the website really changed? I thought that too, but I don't see any changes in the repository. But maybe I'm missing something?
                                    https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/main/about.qmd

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                                    • T Trantion

                                      @crazyeddie @anderseknert I assume a mixture of the instinct to treat coherent text as if it was written by a human (because that was true for most of everyone's life), and for the benefit of anyone else reading the conversation.

                                      Maybe they should have just blocked it first though, save the energy it was going to use in whining.

                                      crazyeddieC This user is from outside of this forum
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                                      #100

                                      @trantion @anderseknert I think I would have just commented with a statement for human readers that contained a link to the policies and then closed it as won't fix or whatever.

                                      It's actually done with its energy sapping stage. That happened when it was being trained. The resulting bots can run on fairly normal hardware. Some even on a pi. It'll still get hot and might even break it...but it's not sucking down cities of water anymore.

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                                      • FayeF Faye

                                        @anderseknert @patriksvensson “oh great, we’ve invented the automated jerk”

                                        Humphrey ArcherS This user is from outside of this forum
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                                        Humphrey Archer
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                                        @FayeDrake

                                        Like we had a shortage of jerks

                                        @anderseknert @patriksvensson

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                                        • pettanko :fedowa: P pettanko :fedowa:
                                          @lain @anderseknert in a world of identity politics we certainly don’t need to add snarky blog posts whining about discrimination against AI
                                          queen of carrot flowersL This user is from outside of this forum
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                                          @pettanko @anderseknert if👏 you👏 don't👏 want👏 anti-ai👏 discrimination👏 posts👏 don't👏 discriminate👏 against👏 ai👏
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