AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.

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.

jacob

@anderseknert Wow

Anders Eknert

@Nagaram yeah, and “only sad” is somehow still the best case scenario

Johan Pelck Olsen

Yeah, also not sure I understand the motivation behind that whole ordeal. I’m one of those people that prefer to have some sort of practical purpose for burning resources…

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

@anderseknert what the hell

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

@anderseknert Yet another reason it is bad that GitHub is owned by a company with a huge stake in the AI Hype. Otherwise these "Agent" Accounts would Just be deleted immediatly. They create zero value and only cause pain for the Community.