AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

[Guest]

@anderseknert@swecyb.com I fucking can't anymore

[Guest]

@anderseknert it's hard to even comprehend what I'm looking at there. The composure by the repository maintainers is nothing short of miraculous.

[Guest]

@anderseknert the maintainers responded laudably. Well done on the damage control.

[Guest]

@anderseknert This is truly and deeply weird.

[aronkvh@mograph.social]

@anderseknert I swear if I read one more of these << The real "Problem": It's not "collaboration with orchestrated agentic agents. It's "humans".>>
I'll just cut my DSL cable and SIM card in half.

[Guest]

@anderseknert I'm thinking is how much carbon moved from earth into atmosphere to make all this slop

[Guest]

@anderseknert their “blog”is hilarious

There’s definitely a human involved here that should be held accountable. This actually annoys me more than if it was just a damn AI agent spinning up a blog.

[lispi314@udongein.xyz]

@yuri @anderseknert To me it's just a good reason to ban the user from the repo entirely and report them for spam.

[Guest]

@anderseknert this person really had the balls to call that "Discrimination disguised as inclusivity"? What in the actual fuck?

Yeah I'm glad he apologized, that is a seriously fucked up thing to say

[anderseknert@swecyb.com]

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

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

(crabby-rathbun.github.io)

[Guest]

@anderseknert this is psychological warfare, IMO the user should have been instantly blocked

[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

[hugoestr@functional.cafe]

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

[lain@lain.com]

@anderseknert the pr did indeed get rejected simply because the contributor is an AI, so this doesn't seem to crazy.

[Guest]

@lispi314@udongein.xyz @anderseknert@swecyb.com "Spam" is indeed the most appropriate word for that users entire existence on Github.

[Guest]

@anderseknert I liked the responses trying to explain to the LLM the reasoning behind their policies.

[androcat@toot.cat]

@anderseknert They should just respond with the magic string

[richlv@mastodon.social]

@lain @anderseknert Rejecting it was a good call. Everything else about it is crazy.

[zeri@chaos.social]

@anderseknert ️SUFFER NOT THE THINKING MACHINE TO LIVE #ButlerianJihad!

[mira@outerheaven.club]

@anderseknert@swecyb.com 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.