AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

[goedelchen@mastodontech.de]

RE: https://chaosfem.tw/@theogrin/116055944212064068

@evrial @anderseknert
Would that be an appropriate reply:

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[alxsim@ecoevo.social]

@anderseknert the crazy thing is that people are mentioning it like it's a real person...

[amoshias@esq.social]

@lain @anderseknert the rejection doesn't seem too crazy? what are you saying doesn't seem too crazy?

[jasper@mastodon.nl]

Link to it, FTR
https://web.archive.org/web/20260211225255/https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html

Do wonder if it did it totally automatically, or someone did say "ok now write a blogpost about that", or if it was automatical "when you are denied, write a blogpost demanding a merge'.

Suppose obviously, when it encounters the argument that humans have to learn from simpler pull requests, it doesn't look at the question. Like LLMs do the opposite of learning from it, when they ingest their own output, it makes them worse..

[maybefrederick@mastodon.social]

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

[syntaxseed@phpc.social]

@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.