Paralax^SDFeb 16

A matplotlib maintainer writes that he was publicly defamed by an AI after denying its pull request. Let's all look forward to this becoming normal now...

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

Summary: 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 acceptin…

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The bot published an apology into a blog it maintains. On there, people try to bait the bot towards including banana pudding recipes in future PRs as a common courtesy.

While this story is somewhat alarming, I'm also enjoying parts of it more than I probably should...

https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html

Matplotlib Truce and Lessons Learned – MJ Rathbun | Scientific Coder 🦀

Feb 16 at 1:55pmWeb
Show threadBentok Feb 16
@paralax the banana pudding things is pretty good.
Show threadParalax^SDFeb 16
@bentok can't be long now before refusing yet another banana pudding recipe will be part of earning your stripes in this wild cyberpunk fantasy of maintaining a public git repo ;)