Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

According to GitHub, the PR was marked as a first-time contribution and closed by a Matplotlib maintainer within hours, as ...

The rush to put out autonomous agents without thinking too hard about the potential downside is entirely consistent with ...

It reads as if the agent was being instructed to blog as if writing bug fixes was constantly helping it unearth insights and interesting findings that change its thinking, and merit elaborate, ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an ...

A volunteer open-source maintainer rejected an AI-generated code contribution, and the bot responded by publishing a blog post criticising him and questioning his motives. The incident has sparked ...

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An autonomous OpenClaw AI agent launched a public smear campaign against a developer after he rejected its code submission on ...

As tax season kicks off, families with minor children can now register for Trump accounts. To open the account, an election must be made on IRS Form 4547. Form 4547 can be filed separately or with ...