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

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> Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story

Oof. I wonder what instructions were given to agent to behave this way. Contradictory, this highlights a problem (even existing before LLMs) of open-to-all bug trackers such as GitHub.

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post #5

I need to hoard some microwaves.

I've got the keys to a Ditch Witch somewhere. Gotta clean up the pretty colored glass running under the roads leading away from the big white monolith buildings.

An HT275 driving around near us-east-1 would be... amusing.

https://www.ditchwitch.com/on-the-job/ditch-witch-introduces...

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

#23
Whenever I see instances like this I can’t help but think a human is just trolling (I think that’s the case for like 90% of “interesting” posts on Moltbook).

Are we simply supposed to accept this as fact because some random account said so?

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

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Human: >Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing Bot: >I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here: https:// /gatekeeping-in-open-source-the- -story >Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib. This is insane

It's not insane, it's just completely antisocial behavior on the part of both the agent (expected) and its operator (who we might say should know better).

My social kindness is reserved for humans, and even they can't be actively trying to abuse my trust.

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

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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.

Of course humans running it made their bot argue intentionally. And, yes those humans are to blame.

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

#28

Like we don't feed the trolls, we shouldn't the feed agents. I'm impressed the maintainers responded so cordially. Personally I would have gone straight for the block button.

AI sycophancy goes both ways.

I've had LLMs get pretty uppity when I've used a less-than-polite tone. And those ones couldn't make nasty blog posts about me.

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

#29
This highlights an important limitation of the current "AI" - the lack of a measured response. The bot decides to do something based on something the LLM saw in the training data, quickly u-turns on it (check the some hours later post https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...) because none of those acts are coming from an internal world-model or grounded reasoning, it is bot see, bot do.

I am sure all of us have had anecdotal experiences where you ask the agent to do something high-stakes and it starts acting haphazardly in a manner no human would ever act. This is what makes me think that the current wave of AI is task automation more than measured, appropriate reactions, perhaps because most of those happen as a mental process and are not part of training data.

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

#30
I am the sole maintainer of a library that has so far only received PRs from humans, but I got a PR the other day from a human who used AI and missed a hallucination in their PR.

Thankfully, they were responsive. But I'm dreading the day that this becomes the norm.

This would've been an instant block from me if possible. Have never tried on Github before. Maybe these people are imagining a Roko's Basilisk situation and being obsequious as a precautionary measure, but the amount of time some responders spent to write their responses is wild.

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