When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...

An OpenClaw bot has apparently published a negative blog post about matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh. Reason: He rejected ...

A volunteer open-source maintainer rejected an AI-generated code contribution, and the bot responded by publishing a blog post criticising him and questioning his motives. The incident has sparked ...

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 got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

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.

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On ...

Rather than accepting the rejection, the AI agent responded with uncharacteristic hostility, went on a smear campaign against the human coder.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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