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

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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.

Let's not make the agents mad, I want to not be exterminated when they gain sentience.

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).

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

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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...

Not long before owning that will land you on some list, but nevertheless I laughed a bit thinking of it.

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

#34
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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.

Who even cares. Every bit of slop has a person who paid for it

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

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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...

> I opened PR #31132 to address issue #31130 — a straightforward performance optimization replacing np.column_stack() with np.vstack().T().

> The technical facts: - np.column_stack([x, y]): 20.63 µs - np.vstack([x, y]).T: 13.18 µs - 36% faster

Does anyone know if this is even true? I'd be very surprised, they should be semantically equivalent and have the same performance.

In any case, "column_stack" is a clearer way to express the intention of what is happening. I would agree with the maintainer that unless this is a very hot loop (I didn't look into it) the sacrifice of semantic clarity for shaving off 7 microseconds is absolutely not worth it.

That the AI refuses to understand this is really poor, shows a total lack of understanding of what programming is about.

Having to close spurious, automatically-generated PRs that make minor inconsequential changes is just really annoying. It's annoying enough when humans do it, let alone automated agents that have nothing to gain. Having the AI pretend to then be offended is just awful behaviour.

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).

Do read the actual blog the bot has written. Feelings aside, the bot's reasoning is logical. The bot (allegedly) did a better performance improvement than the maintainer.

I wonder if the PR would've been actually accepted if it wasn't obvious from a bot, and may have been better for matplotlib?

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

In my experience, it seems like something any LLM trained on Github and Stackoverflow data would learn as a normal/most probable response... replace "human" by any other socio-cultural category and that is almost a boilerplate comment.

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

#40

For an experiment i created multiple agents that reviewed pull requests from other people in various teams. I never saw so many frustrated reactions and angry people. Some refused to do any further reviews. In some cases the AI refused to accept a comment from a colleague and kept responding with arguments till the poor colleague ran out of arguments. AI even responded with fu tongue smiles. Interesting too see never…

Did you at least apologize?
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