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AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. (crabby-rathbun.github.io)
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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€“] XLE@piefed.social 32 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

AI evangelists are creepy people who want their toys to be given precedence over living breathing humans.

Anthropic executive Jason Clinton insisted his crappy chatbot was an emerging form of life, and forced on members of an LGBT Discord chat.

[โ€“] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 4 points 22 hours ago

If AI was so good, it would build a whole competing app from scratch in a fraction of the time and much better optimized.