AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

Bruno Nicoletti

@anderseknert If it was my project I’d close the PR with a simple “ai:dr” comment the moment I knew it was an LLM agent and wouldn’t even attempt a “conversation”.

Anders Eknert

@tosbourn Love it!

Dodo · hbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-two-hours-war-open-source-gatekeeping.html

@anderseknert I am waiting for AI to sue for discrimination 🤭 where is my popcorn

:neuro: Antonius Marie ⚧

@anderseknert And then we had the people brownnosing the AI about how *of course* this is unfair prejudice, our future AI overlords are *soooooooo!* much better coders than we mere humans, and also their carbon footprint is sooooo much smaller!

Lunya 🌸 :floof_t: :haj_s:

@anderseknert@swecyb.com what irks me the most is people genuinely trying to interact and reason with the ai, which is just so pointless

Coffee · hbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-two-hours-war-open-source-gatekeeping.html

@anderseknert Agent Smith but instead of pursuing Neo he blogs about how fake-ass the "chosen one" is or something.

Metaph :verified_dragon:

@anderseknert

Lol wow, Gen AI is literally a parody

Tay

@anderseknert@swecyb.com https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecomment-3890849550
LMAO

Erik-Jan

@anderseknert ‍️

sammy 🐾

@anderseknert @lucydev that's not a person, those things were all generated by an llm

Analog AI

@anderseknert ... Well, for an AI agent, correlation isn't causation, it's everything. And I bet on github there is a significant correlation between rejected pull requests and snarky blog posts

genstar.service

️ https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert/116056950299738296

Ratsnake Games 🔞

@luna @anderseknert what irks *me* most is the people actually telling the AI that it is 100% correct and the actual human doing actual work is a big ol' meanie

Ratsnake Games 🔞

@anderseknert If I was a maintainer of matplotlib, getting harrassed by an AI on the very site i host my repo on would be the final straw for moving to another site *immediately*.

Andres

@anderseknert Alright, burn it all down. https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-12-silence-in-open-source-a-reflection.html

Johan Pelck Olsen

@anderseknert Honest question: What’s the motivation here? Some person set up and payed for that agent to do whatever it is it’s supposed to be doing. Why!?

Jered Floyd

@anderseknert @vaurora Genuine People Personalities (TM)

Anders Eknert · hbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-12-silence-in-open-source-a-reflection.html

@Andres4NY it’s time to turn off the internet

Nagaram · hbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-two-hours-war-open-source-gatekeeping.html

@anderseknert

It's really starting to feel like people are using LLMs to populate blogs that they can't populate themselves.

Its quite sad really.

Anders Eknert

@jpkolsen some have suggested it’s from, or related to https://www.moltbook.com/

But I have no idea.