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AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. (crabby-rathbun.github.io)
submitted 1 day ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The contribution in question: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

The developer's comment:

Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing.

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[โ€“] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yeah, I don't understand why they spent such effort to reply to the toaster. This was more shocking to me than the toaster's behaviour.

[โ€“] Zangoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Presumably just for transparency in case humans down the line went looking through closed PRs and missed the fact that it's AI.