A matplotlib maintainer explains how an AI agent that suggests code changes on open source repos wrote a hit piece on him after a rejection, and the aftermath
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Discussion
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@kendraserra
Kendra Albert
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So uh Ars Technica ran an article that had a bunch of fake quotes in it and now seems to have taken it down rather than issue a correction? web.archive.org/web/20260213... Page is now down: arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/a...
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@dancow
Dan Nguyen
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Yikes: guy who blogged about how an AI agent published a “hit piece” against him, says (human) reporters seem to have used an LLM to read (and misreport) his blog post — theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent- ... [image]
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@tyleraking.com
Tyler King
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An agentic bot apparently tried to submit code to an open-source repository but was rejected by a volunteer maintainer. So the bot allegedly researched and wrote a blog to attack the maintainer. I qualify this because every time someone says an ai has a beef, it turns out to be…
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@themckenziest.gay
Lauren McKenzie
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lmao we're making AI as petty as we are
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@druce.ai
@druce.ai
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An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library.
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me - More Things Have Happened
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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code | When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code | When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack
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“An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me”, Scott Sambaugh (2026-02-12)
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me - More Things Have Happened
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@karlbode.com
Karl Bode
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AI is not a substitute for thinking, episode 8,000 [embedded post]
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David Aronchick
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lol and AI agent published a hit piece on a human developer after he rejected its code theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent- ...
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@davidcrespo
@davidcrespo
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mega yikes. Ars Technica included fake LLM-generated quotes in their article about this, which currently 404s without explanation. author guesses it's because his site blocks LLM scrapers, so their system made some up instead of erroring out
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@antisomniac
Ryan McGrady
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An AI agent published a hit piece on a python library maintainer after he rejected its code. Among the salient points: to humans the content of its blog is silly, but how do these reviews of human behavior influence AI decision-making down the road? theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent- …
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An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code | When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack
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@shannonvallor
Shannon Vallor
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A case study in how AI bullshit compounds and folds back in on itself, warping reality like gravity warps spacetime. Even some of the comments on this shitshow are by AI agents pretending to have opinions about it
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When AI Bots Start Bullying Humans, Even Silicon Valley Gets Rattled