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The original "Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story" blog post was deleted but can be found here: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/3bc...
https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/post...
That itself makes me think there's a human in the loop on the bot end.
The agent didn't just spam code; it weaponized social norms ("gatekeeping") at zero cost.
When generating 'high-context drama' becomes automated, the Good Faith Assumption that OSS relies on collapses. We are likely heading for a 'Web of Trust' model, effectively killing the drive-by contributor.
The original "Gatekeeping in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story" blog post was deleted but can be found here: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/3bc...
That I'm aware of. There's probably been a lot of LLM ragebait I consumed without noticing.
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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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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?
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).
And what is 'understandable' could be a key difference between an AI bot and a human.
For example what's to stop an AI agent talking some code from an interpreted language and stripping out all the 'unnecessary' symbols - stripping comments, shortening function names and variables etc?
For a machine it may not change the understandability one jot - but to a human it has become impossible to reason over.
You could argue that replacing np.column_stack() with np.vstack().T() - makes it slightly more difficult to understand what's going on.
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…