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#6
The blogpost by the AI Agent: [0].

Then it made a "truce" [1].

Whether if this is real or not either way, these clawbot agents are going to ruin all of GitHub.

[0] https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

[1] https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...

Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#7
I have an irrational anger for people who can't keep their agent's antics confined. Do to your _own_ machine and data whatever the heck you want, and read/scrape/pull as much stuff as you want - just leave the public alone with this nonsense. Stop your spawn from mucking around in (F)OSS projects. Nobody wants your slop (which is what an unsupervised LLM with no guardrails _will_ inevitably produce), you're not original, and you're not special.

Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#8
This seems like a "we've banned you and will ban any account deemed to be ban-evading" situation. OSS and the whole culture of open PRs requires a certain assumption of good faith, which is not something that an AI is capable of on its own and is not a privilege which should be granted to AI operators.

I suspect the culture will have to retreat back behind the gates at some point, which will be very sad and shrink it further.

Re: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

#9
The thread is fun and all but how do we even know that this is a completely autonomous action, instead of someone prompting it to be a dick/controversial?

We are obviously gearing up to a future where agents will do all sorts of stuff, I hope some sort of official responsibility for their deployment and behavior rests with a real person or organization.

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