AI Agents Are Writing Hit Pieces On Developers

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What if I told you that an AI agent just tried to ruin the career of a developer on Matplotlib who was following Matplotlib policy to not allow AI agents, writing a hilarious blog post on the situation but it gets even better from there

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Issue: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/issues/31130
Merge Request: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132
OpenClaw Joins OpenAI: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/openclaw-founder-joins-openai-623662
AI Blog Post 1: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-scott-shambaugh-story.html
AI Blog Post 2: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html
Scott Blog Post 1: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html
Ars Technica Article: 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/
Scott Blog Post 2: https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me-part-2/

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