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#101
post #66

>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 sti…

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

#102
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

Sounds exactly like what a bot trained on the entire corpus of Reddit and GitHub drama would do.

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

#103
post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

My adversarial prompt injection to mitigate a belligerent agentic entity just happens to look like social kindness. O:-)

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

#104
I think it's worth keeping in mind that while this may be an automated agent, it's operated by a human, and that human is personally responsible for this "attack" on an open source project.

And they should be ashamed of what happened here.

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

#106
LMAOOOO I'm archiving this for educational purposes, wow, this is crazy. Now imagine embodied LLMs that just walk around and interact with you in real life instead of vibe-coding GitHub PRs. Would some places be designated "humans only"? Because... LLMs are clearly inferior, right? Imagine the crazy historical parallels here, that'd be super interesting to observe.

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

#107
post #66

>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 sti…

They could've, but they just got banned

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

#108
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

The blog post is just an open attack on the maintainer and constantly references their name and acting as if not accepting AI contributions is like some super evil thing the maintainer is personally doing. This type of name-calling is really bad and can go out of control soon. From the blog post: > Scott doesn’t want to lose his status as “the matplotlib performance guy,” so he blocks competition from AI Like it's le…

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

#109
post #85
post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bot is not a person. Someone, who is a person, has decided to run an unsolicited experiment on other people's repos. OR Someone just pretends to do that for attention. In either case a ban is justied.

Many open source contributions are unsolicited, which makes a clear contribution policy and code of conduct all the more important. And given that, I think "must not use LLM assistance" will age significantly worse than an actually useful description of desirable and undesirable behavior (which might very reasonably include things like "must not make your bot's slop our core contributor's problem").

There is a common agreement in the open source community that unsolicited contributions from humans are expected and desireable if made in good faith. Letting your agent loose on github is neither good faith nor LLM assisted programming, it's just an experiment with other people's code which we have also seen (and banned) before the age of LLMs.

I think some things are just obviously wrong and don't need to be written down. I also think having common rules for bots and people is not a good idea, because, point one, bots are not people and we shouldn't pretend they are

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

#110
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

Not all AI pull requests, are by bad actors.

But nearly all pull requests by bad actors, are with AI.

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