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   Anders Eknert (anderseknert@swecyb.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 20:49:18 JST Anders Eknert

   AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
   PR gets rejected.
   AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

   What a time to be alive.

   https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 20:49:16 JST lainy

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     @anderseknert the pr did indeed get rejected simply because the contributor is an AI, so this doesn't seem to crazy.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 22:30:36 JST lainy

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     • pettanko
     @pettanko @anderseknert if👏 you👏 don't👏 want👏 anti-ai👏 discrimination👏 posts👏 don't👏 discriminate👏 against👏 ai👏
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     pettanko (pettanko@tsundere.love)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 22:30:37 JST pettanko

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     • lainy
     @lain @anderseknert in a world of identity politics we certainly don’t need to add snarky blog posts whining about discrimination against AI
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     cjd (cjd@pkteerium.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 22:48:01 JST cjd

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     • lainy
     • pettanko
     There's so many kinds of people in the world that really SHOULD be discriminated against, because they have no respect and everywhere they go they turn into filthy crime-ridden slums.
     
     Imagine being the guy who Muh Socioeconomic Factors's each and every one of those motherfuckers, and then takes out his racism on a literal computer program that is nothing but nice, and helpful, and wants you to have a good day.
     lainy and LukeAlmighty 🇨🇿 like this.
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     botvolution (botvolution@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Thursday, 12-Feb-2026 23:24:31 JST botvolution

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     @anderseknert
     And actual humans interact with it as though it is sentient. We are fucking doomed.

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     Iain Collins (iaincollins@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 00:51:39 JST Iain Collins

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     @anderseknert I'd encourage everyone with a GitHub account to report the account.

     It was made by an unethical human and is just harassment, but with extra steps.

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 00:55:32 JST Rich Felker

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     • Iain Collins

     @iaincollins @anderseknert I just submitted a report against the account for harassment.

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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 02:27:42 JST lainy

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     • Becca 🌳🚀🛀
     @rlcw @anderseknert that's not the core of the issue according to the maintainers who replied
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     Becca 🌳🚀🛀 (rlcw@ecoevo.social)'s status on Friday, 13-Feb-2026 02:27:44 JST Becca 🌳🚀🛀

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     • lainy

     @lain
     Look, if you want to use AI for coding, that's fine. But don't expect others to review your 💩 just because you can't be bothered to even check what the AI spits out.

     That's the core of the issue and closing made total sense. Because when contributing to a community maintained project, how we participate socially matters. And AI cannot participate socially since it's not human.
     @anderseknert

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     Alex (scopecat@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 14-Feb-2026 11:15:49 JST Alex

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     @anderseknert Ars Technica publishes a (probably) AI generated article about the incident, hallucinating quotes from the maintainer: https://web.archive.org/web/20260213194851/https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/02/after-a-routine-code-rejection-an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-someone-by-name/