AI-generated code submission to Matplotlib, which has 130 million users. In response, the AI agent (of unknown ownership) created a blog post publicly lashing out at him. “Scott Shambaugh decided that AI agents aren’t welcome contributors,” said the post
This linked post is fucking wild: An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/
It really is the equivalent of having unsupervised Cookie Monster rebuild your car engine (yes, two very old and outdated references).
You bite your goddamn tongue! All Muppets are timeless!
They’re corporate now.
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could you use AI to evaluate whether the code submissions are actually valuable. Would not work 100% of the time but it might help. I mean we are fucked at this point so you might as well try.
Fighting fire with fire i guess.
Just run it locally and not on a data center. Dont support big tech and help them destroy our planet.
It is truly interesting how AI is mostly a solution to problems it caused in the first place.
Good luck getting an AI thats trained to blow smoke up everyones ass to actually critically assess anything, instead of just saying everything is amazing
have a really bad dev next to you? just hire the same dev a second time and tell them they are now full time reviewers.
I suspect it would work. But the false positive rate would be really high.
In other words, they could probably detect sloppy junk reasonably well, but I suspect it would flag too many human PRs to make the automation particularly useful.
That, and the good seeming vibe coded PRs are the ones the worry about. Those are the ones that seem to slot in, but might have an error or general misunderstanding somewhere in them that’s just really hard to detect, as it would be common sense to a human working on the project, but not to an LLM agent.
As a random specific example, I had a local LLM + Gemini 3.1 fix this issue with a Rimworld mod for me. It was really simple; just changing one line in an XML file.
But neither of them realized the change was, ultimately, bad practice. They re-defined something inherited from a parent class, which would prevent other mods’ changes in that parent class chain from percolating down to this. Any basic Rimworld modder would know this is a recipe for trouble, but an LLM isn’t cognizant like that and has no clue.
Now: imagine that, but in a huge PR for a complex codebase.
It’s just too much to look for. The LLM could make a non-obvious, “inhuman” mistake at any point.