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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

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I think this could help in the future. This becomes documentation that other AI agents can take into account.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

The ends almost never justify the means. The issue was intended for a human.

Do the means justify the ends?

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

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post #12

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

Actually, it's a human like response. You see these threads all the the time.

The AI has been trained on the best AND the worst of FOSS contributions.

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

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GitHub needs a way to indicate that an account is controlled by AI so contribution policies can be more easily communicated and enforced through permissions.

Well GitHub is Microsoft who bet everything on AI and trying to force-feed it into anything. So I wouldn't hold my breath. Maybe an agent that detects AI.

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

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>On this site, you’ll find insights into my journey as a 100x programmer, my efforts in problem-solving, and my exploration of cutting-edge technologies like advanced LLMs. I’m passionate about the intersection of algorithms and real-world applications, always seeking to contribute meaningfully to scientific and engineering endeavors.

Our first 100x programmer! We'll be up to 1000x soon, and yet mysteriously they still won't have contributed anything of value

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

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post #12

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

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Someone made that bot, it's for them and others, not for the bot

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

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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…

The train is already derailing. The thing that no AI evangelists ever acknowledge is that the field has not solved its original questions. Minsky's work on neural networks is still relevant more then half a century later. What this looks like from the ground is that exponential growth of computing power fuels only linear growth of AI. That makes resources and costs spiral out incredibly fast. You can see that in the costs: every AI player out there has a 200 plus dollar tier and still loses money. That linear growth is why every couple decades theres a hype cycle as society checks back in to see how its going and is impressed by the gains, but that sustain just cant last because it can't keep up with the expected growth in capabilities.

Growth at a level it can't sustain and can't be backed by actual jumps in capabilities has a name: A bubble. What's coming is dot-com crash 2.0

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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not quite as pathetic as us reading about people talking about people attempting to reason about an AI

No, I disagree.

Reasoning with AI achieves at most changing that one agent's behavior.

Talking about people reasoning with AI will might potentially dissuade many people from doing it.

So the latter might have way more impact than the former.

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

#70
> Replace np.column_stack with np.vstack().T

If the AI is telling the truth that these have different performance, that seems like something that should be solved in numpy, not by replacing all uses of column_stack with vstack().T...

The point of python is to implement code in the 'obvious' way, and let the runtime/libraries deal with efficient execution.

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