AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
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@anderseknert the pr did indeed get rejected simply because the contributor is an AI, so this doesn't seem to crazy.
@lain @anderseknert Rejecting it was a good call. Everything else about it is crazy.
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@anderseknert @Fissile Who is the individual behind that?
Need to add to the blacklists. -
@anderseknert actually - given how stupid the blog is, is there anything in it suggesting that it was written by an llm rather than the human behind the llm?
@Amoshias the format of the blog posts certainly reek of LLM. Not to mention the frequency. But your guess is as good as mine.
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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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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@anderseknert
️SUFFER NOT THE THINKING MACHINE TO LIVE #ButlerianJihad! -
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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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Anders Eknert found an AI blog post with intact placeholders: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-09-post.html
I feel lied to. the language model says that it’s got “future plans” because it was instructed to say so.
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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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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@anderseknert
Waaat
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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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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@anderseknert who/what exactly decided to seemingly delete the original blogpost and only keep the apologies blogpost up -
@Amoshias the format of the blog posts certainly reek of LLM. Not to mention the frequency. But your guess is as good as mine.
@anderseknert what a freaking awful world.
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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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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@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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@anderseknert who/what exactly decided to seemingly delete the original blogpost and only keep the apologies blogpost up
@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
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@yuri @anderseknert To me it's just a good reason to ban the user from the repo entirely and report them for spam.
@lispi314 @yuri @anderseknert i feel like an ordinary ban is necessary but not sufficient.
wondering if it might help to also use something like temporary IP blocking when this type of behavior is detected.
(that's not going to happen on github, but maybe on sites like codeberg...?) -
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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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@anderseknert
wow, this should've been a straightforward ban -
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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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@anderseknert “generates” is the correct word to use here
Don’t water down writing by associating the skill with an overgrown markov chain
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@lispi314 @yuri @anderseknert i feel like an ordinary ban is necessary but not sufficient.
wondering if it might help to also use something like temporary IP blocking when this type of behavior is detected.
(that's not going to happen on github, but maybe on sites like codeberg...?)@JamesWidman @yuri @anderseknert Ideally some means of identification of the company's tools would be found.
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@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
@anderseknert Ah, a human error. I missed it in the list. It was never delisted even. And I already went and checked github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/main
Which btw, depending on anyone’s approach to interacting with wasteful agents, is likely open to issues and PRs -
@anderseknert Ah, a human error. I missed it in the list. It was never delisted even. And I already went and checked github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/main
Which btw, depending on anyone’s approach to interacting with wasteful agents, is likely open to issues and PRs@anderseknert Although this one didn’t get an answer. github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/1 -
@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.
Juhis Patrik Svensson Anders Eknert That is part of what was the and the point, but I think it could have been done better.
Simply flatly refusing it as a freedom-harming tool and then providing an explanation for readers would’ve been better.
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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.
[PERF] Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T by crabby-rathbun · Pull Request #31132 · matplotlib/matplotlib
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@anderseknert I guarantee this is not true and either a human wrote the blog post or heavily prompted the agent to do it. Moltboook proved it's all bullshit.
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@anderseknert then the truce blog post later too.
@some @anderseknert without retracting the original, terribly written post or even linking to the retraction.
I don't think this is a llm, I think this is the human behind it.
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@anderseknert I'm thinking is how much carbon moved from earth into atmosphere to make all this slop
RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@theogrin/116055944212064068
@evrial @anderseknert
Would that be an appropriate reply:
