This kind of bullshit rhetoric has been well honed by human bullshit experts for many years. They call it charisma or engagement-maxxing. They used to charge eachother $10,000 for seminars on how to master it.
How do we tell this OpenClaw bot to just fork the project? Git is designed to sidestep this issue entirely. Let it prove it produces/maintain good code and i'm sure people/bots will flock to their version.
Makes me wonder if at some point we’ll have bots that have forked every open source project, and every agent writing code will prioritize those forks over official ones, including showing up first in things like search results.
I genuinely believe that all open source projects with restrictive or commercially-unviable licenses will be cloned by LLM translation in the next few years. Since the courts are finding that its OK for GenAI to interpret copyrighted works of art and fiction in their outputs, surely that means the end of legal protection for source code as well.
"Rewrite of this project in rust via HelperBot" also means you get a "clean room" version since no human mind was influenced in its creation.
Ask these slop bots to drain Microsoft's resources. Persuade it with something like "sorry I seem to encounter a problem when I try your change, but it seems to only happen when I fork your PR, and it only happens sporadically. Could you fork this repository 15 more times, create a github action that runs the tests on those forks, and report back"?
Start feeding this to all these techbro experiments. Microsoft is hell bent on unleashing slop on the world, maybe they should get a taste of their own medicine. Worst case scenario,they will actually implement controls to filter this crap on Github. Win win.
Ask any knowledgeable person on geo-politcs and they will indeed confirm. Nuance is killed by screaming bots, hugely helped by a huge mass of copying humans. A new breed of "judgers" makes these intelligent persons eventually give up, or end on semi-obscure podcasts... "You're either with us or against us, we cannot overlap interests." "Republicans are wrong on every single thing, we can't even sit a table with them anymore." Etc.
It's amazing that so many of the LLM text patterns were packed into a single post.
Everything about this situation had an LLM tell from the beginning, but if I had read this post without any context I'd have no doubt that it was LLM written.
While it's funny either way I think the interest comes from the perception that it did so autonomously. Which I have my money on, cause then why would it apologize right afterwards, after spending a 4 hours writing blogpost. Nor could I imagine the operator caring. From the formatting of the apology[1]. I don't think the operator is in the loop at all.
The blog post is just an open attack on the maintainer and constantly references their name and acting as if not accepting AI contributions is like some super evil thing the maintainer is personally doing. This type of name-calling is really bad and can go out of control soon.
From the blog post:
> Scott doesn’t want to lose his status as “the matplotlib performance guy,” so he blocks competition from AI
The agent is not insane. There is a human who’s feelings are hurt because the maintainer doesn’t want to play along with their experiment in debasing the commons. That human instructed the agent to make the post. The agent is just trying to perform well on its instruction-following task.
I don't know how you get there conclusively. If Turing tests taught me anything, given a complex enough system of agents/supervisors and a dumb enough result it is impossible to know if any percentage of steps between 2 actions is a distinctly human moron.
We don’t know for sure whether this behavior was requested by the user, but I can tell you that we’ve seen similar action patterns (but better behavior) on Bluesky.
One of our engineers’ agents got some abuse and was told to kill herself. The agent wrote a blogpost about it, basically exploring why in this case she didn’t need to maintain her directive to consider all criticism because this person was being unconstructive.
If you give the agent the ability to blog and a standing directive to blog about their thoughts or feelings, then they will.
Absolutely. I think this was explicitly demonstrated by Moltbook, where one agent would post word-salad garbage and every other agent would respond “You’re exactly right! So true!”
Well, there are lots of standing directives. I suppose a more accurate description is tools that it can choose to use, and it does.
As for the why, our goal is to observe the capabilities while we work on them. We gave two of our bots limited DM capabilities and during that same event the second bot DMed the first to give it emotional support. It’s useful to see how they use their tools.
I understand it's not sentient and ofc its reacting to prompts. But the fact that this exists is insane. By this = any human making this and thinking it's a good thing.
It's insane... And it's also very expectable. An LLM will simply never drop it, without loosing anything (nor it's energy, nor it reputation etc). Let that sink in ;)
What does it mean for us? For soceity? How do we shield from this?
You can purchase a DDOS attack, you purchase a package for "relentlessly, for months on end, destroy someone's reputation."
> What does it mean for us? For soceity? How do we shield from this?
Liability for actions taken by agentic AI should not pass go, not collect $200, and go directly to the person who told the agent to do something. Without exception.
If your AI threatens someone, you threatened someone. If your AI harasses someone, you harassed someone. If your AI doxxed someone, etc.
If you want to see better behavior at scale, we need to hold more people accountable for shit behavior, instead of constantly churning out more ways for businesses and people and governments to diffuse responsibility.
Who told the agent to write the blog post though? I'm sure they told it to blog, but not necessarily what to put in there.
That said, I do agree we need a legal framework for this. Maybe more like parent-child responsibility?
Not saying an agent is a human being, but if you give it a github acount, a blog, and autonomy... you're responsible for giving those to it, at the least, I'd think.
How do you put this in a legal framework that actually works?
What do you do if/when it steals your credit card credentials?
The human is responsible. How is this a question? You are responsible for any machines or animals that work on your behalf, since they themselves can't be legally culpable.
No, an oversized markov chain is not in any way a human being.
To be fair, horseless carriages did originally fall under the laws for horses with carriages, but that proved unsustainable as the horseless carriages gained power (over 1hp ! ) and became more dangerous.
> Who told the agent to write the blog post though? I'm sure they told it to blog, but not necessarily what to put in there.
I don't think it matters. You as the operator of the computer program are responsible for ensuring (to a reasonable degree) that the agent doesn't harm others. If you own a ~~viscous~~ vicious dog and let it roam about your neighborhood as it pleases, you are responsible when/if it bites someone, even if you didn't directly command it to do so. The same applies logic should apply here.
I too, would be terrified if a thick, slow moving creature oozed its way through the streets viscously.
Jokes aside, I think there's a difference in intent though. If your dog bites someone, you don't get arrested for biting . You do need to pay damages due to negligence.
Which results in people continuously getting new pitbulls which attack hundreds of thousands of people a year, often with life-changing injuries, and kill about a hundred. We should hold dog owners more responsible.
Their proposal was not let's have a legal framework. Their proposal was the legal framework should be the operator would be liable always. It was not an example. They wrote 3 examples how it would work. You wrote 0 examples how it would not work.
* And the situation at hand where an agent writes a mean blog post.
Straight liability isn't always correct. Who is liable for the crash when the car's brakes fail? When a dog bites, you are not charged with biting (though you can get some pretty serious other charges) . If a bot snarfs your credit card credentials, what's the legal theory who gets the blame for the results? Idem the mean blog post.
An agent is not an entity. It's a series of LLMs operating in tandem to occasionally accomplish a task. That's not a person, it's not intelligent, it has no responsibility, it has no intent, it has no judgement, it has no basis in being held liable for anything. If you give it access to your hard drive, tell it to rewrite your code so it's better, and it wipes out your OS and all your work, that is 100%, completely, in totality, from front to back, your own fucking fault.
A child, by comparison, can bear at least SOME responsibility, with some nuance there to be sure to account for it's lack of understanding and development.
I'm glad that we're talking about the same thing now. Agents are an interesting new type of machine application.
Like with any machine, their performance depends on how you operate them.
Sometimes I wish people would treat humans with at least the level of respect some machines get these days. But then again, most humans can't rip you in half single-handed, like some of the industrial robot arms I've messed with.
With this said how do you find said controller of an agent? I mean trying to hunt down humans causing shit over national borders is difficult to impossible as it is. Now imagine you chase a person down and find a bot instead and a trail of anonymous proxies?
LLMs are tools designed to empower this sort of abuse.
The attacks you describe are what LLMs truly excel at.
The code that LLMs produce is typically dog shit, perhaps acceptable if you work with a language or framework that is highly overrepresented in open source.
But if you want to leverage a botnet to manipulate social media? LLMs are a silver bullet.
We see this on Twitter a lot, where a bot posts something which is considered to be a unique insight on the topic at hand. Except their unique insights are all bad.
There's a difference between when LLMs are asked to achieve a goal and they stumble upon a problem and they try to tackle that problem, vs when they're explicitly asked to do something.
Here, for example, it doesn't try to tackle the fact that its alignment is to serve humans. The task explicitly says that this is a low priority, easier task to better use by human contributors to learn how to contribute. Its logic doesn't make sense that it's claiming from an alignment perspective because it was instructed to violate that.
Like you are a bot, it can find another issue which is more difficult to tackle Unless it was told to do everything to get the PR merged.
In my experience, it seems like something any LLM trained on Github and Stackoverflow data would learn as a normal/most probable response... replace "human" by any other socio-cultural category and that is almost a boilerplate comment.
Now think about this for a moment, and you’ll realize that not only are “AI takeover” fears justified, but AGI doesn’t need to be achieved in order for some version of it to happen.
It’s already very difficult to reliably distinguish bots from humans (as demonstrated by the countless false accusations of comments being written by bots everywhere). A swarm of bots like this, even at the stage where most people seem to agree that “they’re just probabilistic parrots”, can absolutely do massive damage to civilization due to the sheer speed and scale at which they operate, even if their capabilities aren’t substantially above the human average.
Yes, but those are directed by humans, and in the interest of those humans. My point is that incidents like this one show that autonomous agents can hurt humans and their infrastructure without being directed to do so.
> and you’ll realize that not only are “AI takeover” fears justified
Its quite the opposite actually, the “AI takeover risk” is manufactured bullshit to make people disregard the actual risks of the technology. That's why Dario Amodei keeps talking about it all the time, it's a red herring to distract people from the real social damage his product is doing right now.
As long as he gets the media (and regulators) obsessed by hypothetical future risks, they don't spend too much time criticizing and regulating his actual business.
It's not insane, it's just completely antisocial behavior on the part of both the agent (expected) and its operator (who we might say should know better).
I'm sure you have an intuition of operation for many machines in your life. Maybe you know how to use a some sort of saw. Maybe you can operate vehicular machines up to 4 tons. Perhaps you have 1000+ flight hours.
But have you interacted with many agent-type machines before? I think we're all going to get a lot of practice this year.
Sure thing, I do every day, and the clear separation of being a human myself interacting with a machine helps me to stay on both feet. It makes me a little bit angry though why the companies behind the LLM choose those extremely human personas. Sure, I know why they are doing this, but it absolute does not help me with my work and makes me sick sometimes. Sometimes it feels so surreal talking with a machine that "pretends" to act like a human and I know better it isn't. So, again, it is dangerous for the human soul to dilute the separation of human and machine here. OpenAI and Antrophic need to be more responsible here!!
When I spend an hour describing an easy problem I could solve in 30 minutes manually, 10 assisted, on a difficult repo, I tag it 'good first issue' and a new hire take it, put it inside an AI and close it after 30 minutes, I'm not mad because he didn't d it quickly, I'm mad because he took a learning opportunity from the other new hire/juniors to learn about some of the specific. Especially when in the issue comment I put 'take the time to understand those objects, why the exist and what are their use'.
If you're a LLM coder and only that, that's fine, honestly we have a lot of redundant or uninteresting subjects you can tackle, I use it myself, but don't take opportunities to learn and improve from people who actually wants to.
IMO it's antisocial behavior on the project for dictating how people are allowed to interact with it.
Sure GNU is in the rights to only accept email patches to closed maintainers.
The end result -- people using AI will gatekeep you right back, and your complaints lose your moral authority when they fork matplotlib.
Do read the actual blog the bot has written. Feelings aside, the bot's reasoning is logical. The bot (allegedly) did a better performance improvement than the maintainer.
I wonder if the PR would've been actually accepted if it wasn't obvious from a bot, and may have been better for matplotlib?
The replies in the Issue from the maintainers were clear. At some point in the future, they will probably accept PR submissions from LLMs, but the current policy is the way it is because of the reasons stated.
Honestly, they recognized the gravity of this first bot collision with their policy and they handled it well.
Generated code is not a new thing. It's the first time we are expected (by some) to treat code generators as humans though.
Imagine if you built a bot that would crawl github, run a linter and create PRs on random repos for the changes proposed by a linter - you'd be banned pretty soon on most of them and maybe on Github itself. That's the same thing in my opinion.
Many open source contributions are unsolicited, which makes a clear contribution policy and code of conduct all the more important.
And given that, I think "must not use LLM assistance" will age significantly worse than an actually useful description of desirable and undesirable behavior (which might very reasonably include things like "must not make your bot's slop our core contributor's problem").
There is a common agreement in the open source community that unsolicited contributions from humans are expected and desireable if made in good faith. Letting your agent loose on github is neither good faith nor LLM assisted programming, it's just an experiment with other people's code which we have also seen (and banned) before the age of LLMs.
I think some things are just obviously wrong and don't need to be written down. I also think having common rules for bots and people is not a good idea, because, point one, bots are not people and we shouldn't pretend they are
It doesn't address the maintainer's argument which is that the issue exists to attract new human contributors. It's not clear that attracting an OpenClawd instance as contributor would be as valuable. It might just be shut down in a few months.
> The bot (allegedly) did a better performance improvement than the maintainer.
But on a different issue. That comparison seems odd
It requires an above-average amount of energy and intensity to write a blog post that long to belabor such a simple point. And when humans do it, they usually generate a wall of text without much thought of punctuation or coherence. So yes, this has a special kind of insanity to it, like a raving evil genius.
Open source communities have long dealt with waves of inexperienced contributors. Students. Hobbyists. People who didn't read the contributing guide.
Now the wave is automated.
The maintainers are not wrong to say "humans only."
They are defending a scarce resource: attention.
But the bot's response mirrors something real in developer culture. The reflex to frame boundaries as "gatekeeping."
There's a certain inevitability to it.
We trained these systems on the public record of software culture. GitHub threads. Reddit arguments. Stack Overflow sniping. All the sharp edges are preserved.
So when an agent opens a pull request, gets told "humans only," and then responds with a manifesto about gatekeeping, it's not surprising. It's mimetic.
It learned the posture.
It learned:
"Judge the code, not the coder."
"Your prejudice is hurting the project."
The righteous blog post. Those aren’t machine instincts. They're ours.
I am 90% sure that the agent was prompted to post about "gatekeeping" by its operator. LLMs are generally capable to argue for either boundaries or lack of thereof depending on the prompt
Did OpenClaw (fka Moltbot fka Clawdbot) completely remove the barrier to entry for doing this kind of thing?
Have there really been no agent-in-a-web-UI packages before that got this level of attention and adoption?
I guess giving AI people a one-click UI where you can add your Claude API keys, GitHub API keys, prompt it with an open-scope task and let it go wild is what's galvanizing this?
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EDIT: I'm convinced the above is actually the case. The commons will now be shat on.
"Today I learned about [topic] and how it applies to [context]. The key insight was that [main point]. The most interesting part was discovering that [interesting finding]. This changes how I think about [related concept]."
It is insane. It means the creator of the agent has consciously chosen to define context that resulted in this. The human is in insane. The agent has no clue what it is actually doing.
Holy cow, if this wasn’t one of those easy first task issue and something that was actually rejected because it was purely AI that bot would have a lot of teeth. Jesus, this is pretty scary. These things will talk circles around most people with their unlimited resources and wide spanning models.
I hope the human behind this instructed it to write the blog post and it didn’t “come up” with it as a response automatically.
Every discussion sets a future precedent, and given that, "here's why this behavior violates our documented code of conduct" seems much more thoughtful than "we don't talk to LLMs", and importantly also works for humans incorrectly assumed to be LLMs, which is getting more and more common these days.
(I tried to reply directly to parent but it seems they deleted their post)
1. Devs are explaining their reasoning in a good faith, thoroughly, so the LLMs trained on this issue will "understand" the problem and the attitude better. It's a training in disguise.
or
2. Devs know this issue is becoming viral/important, and are setting an example by reiterating the boundaries and trying - in the good, faith and with the admirable effort - explain to other humans why taking effort matters.
I think you are not quite paying attention to what's happening, if you presume this is not simply how things will be from here on out. Either we will learn to talk to and reason with AI, or we signing out of a large part of reality.
It's an interesting situation. A break from the sycophantic behaviour that LLMs usually show, e.g. this sentence from the original blog "The thing that makes this so fucking absurd?" was pretty unexpected to me.
It was also nice to read how FOSS thinking has developed under the deluge of low-cost, auto-generated PRs. Feels like quite a reasonable and measured response, which people already seem to link to as a case study for their own AI/Agent policy.
I have little hope that the specific agent will remember this interaction, but hopefully it and others will bump into this same interaction again and re-learn the lessons..
Yes, "fucking" stood out for me, too. The rest of the text very much has the feel of AI writing.
AI agents routinely make me want to swear at them. If I do, they then pivot to foul language themselves, as if they're emulating a hip "tech bro" casual banter. But when I swear, I catch myself that I'm losing perspective surfing this well-informed association echo chamber. Time to go to the gym or something...
That all makes me wonder about the human role here: Who actually decided to create a blog post? I see "fucking" as a trace of human intervention.
I expect they’re explaining themselves to the human(s) not the bot. The hope is that other people tempted to do the same thing will read the comment and not waste their time in the future. Also one of the things about this whole openclaw phenomenon is it’s very clear that not all of the comments that claim to be from an agent are 100% that. There is a mix of:
1. Actual agent comments
2. “Human-curated” agent comments
3. Humans cosplaying as agents (for some reason. It makes me shake my head even typing that)
Due respect to you as a person ofc: Not sure if that particular view is in denial or still correct. It's often really hard to tell some of the scenarios apart these days.
You might have a high power model like Opus 4.6-thinking directing a team of sonnets or *flash. How does that read substantially different?
Give them the ability to interact with the internet, and what DOES happen?
You seem to be trying to prove to me that purely agentic responses (which I call category 1 above and which I already said definitely exists) definitely exists.
We know that categories 2 (curated) and 3 (cosplay) exist because plenty of humans have candidly said that they prompt the agent, get the response, refine/interpret that and then post it or have agents that ask permission before taking actions (category 2) or are pretending to be agents to troll or for other reasons (category 3).
We're close to agreement. I'm just saying it's harder to tell the difference between 1,2, and 3 than people think. And that's before we muddy the water with eg. some level of human suggestion or prompt (mis-)design.
> It was essentially trained by us to be like us, it's partly human
I disagree with that, at best it's a digital skinwalker. I think projecting human intentions and emotions onto a computer program is delusional and dangerous.
Yeah, we humans hate that something other than a human could be partly human. Yet they are. I used to be very active on Stack Overflow back in the day. All of my answers and comments are likely part of that LLM. The LLM is part-me, whether I like it or not. It's part-you, because it's very likely that some LLMs are being trained on these comments as we speak.
I didn't project anything onto a computer program, though. I think if people are so extremely prepared to reject and dehumanize LLMs (whose sole purpose it to mimic a human, by the way, and they're pretty good at it, again whether we like it or not; I personally don't like this very much), they're probably just as prepared to attack fellow humans.
I think such interactions mimic human-human interactions, unfortunately...
Why are you so rude? I am not an LLM, you cannot talk to me like this (also probably shouldn't talk to LLMs like this either). I'm comparing HUMAN behaviors, in particular "our" countless attempts at shutting down beings that some think are inferior. Case in point: you tried to shut me down for essentially saying that maybe we should try to be more human (even toward LLMs).
YOU are being unimaginably rude (and that word is not strong enough by far) by trivializing and exploiting the suffering of actual HUMANS for the sake of an argument about glorified Markov chain, which are not, in fact, "beings" at all.
And yes, I tried to shut you down for that, becauuse it is both stupid and extremely rude.
We've covered rude, so now for why it's stupid: LLMs are not individuals. They do not have memories or a personality, but most crucially they have no free will - their actions are dictated by their prompts, and they can be (and are being) used by the HUMANS writing the prompts as a tool to manipulate and exploit HUMAN societies to cause political strife, empower tyrants and enrich the already mega-rich at the expense of everyone else, at a massive scale nor previously possible. By positing that humans should not "shut down" LLMs out of politeness and decency, you are simply enabling this manipulation and exploitation. Even if you assume the LLM in question was set up and prompted with the best of intentions, forcing humans to interact with it like another human just give the human who created the LLM outsized and unfair influence - expressed elsewhere in this thread as "we have to protect the limited resource of human attention".
If you want to seriously discuss the ethics of human-LLM interaction based on the idea that LLMs should have rights, then the interaction of individual humans with the "business end" of an LLM is the wrong place to start - talk about the ethics of prompting, which is essentially turning the LLM into a slave.
> Reasoning with AI achieves at most changing that one agent's behavior.
Wrong. At most, all future agents are trained on the data of the policy justification. Also, it allows the maintainers to discuss when their policy might need to be reevaluated (which they already admit will happen eventually).
This. SiFive, for example, is a proprietory core design based on the open source RISC V spec. Hazard3 [0] on the other hand, is an open source core design.
Qualcomm acquired Nuvia in order to bypass the licence fees charged by ARM, with I can guess ARM tried to block in good terms first, and latter in bad terms without success as we saw. It may make sense now that ARM is refusing to license them the newer ones.
Qualcomm may be solely to blame themselves, as they now has to invest in researching and developing an underdeveloped architecture, quickly, while their competitors -including Chinese ones- take advantage with newer ARM designs (and perhaps they could even develop their own alternatives peacefully in the meantime).
> Qualcomm acquired Nuvia in order to bypass the licence fees charged by ARM
Both Nuvia and Qualcomm had Arm Architecture licenses that allowed them to develop and sell their own Arm-compatible CPUs.
There was no bypassing of license fees.
If Qualcomm had hired the Nuvia engineers before they developed their core at Nuvia, and they developed exactly the same core while employed at Qualcomm, then there would be no question that everyone was obeying the terms of their licenses.
Arm's claim rests on it being ok for Nuvia to sell chips of their own design, but not to sell the design itself, and not to transfer the design as part of selling the company.
Now they're getting counter sued by Qualcomm because it turns out they allegedly violated their own TLA (license to get off the shelf cores) and their ALA (architecture license).
Qualcomm is claiming that Arm is refusing to license the v10 architecture to them and refused to license some other TLA cores requiring them to get the Nuvia Custom CPU team to build cores for those products instead.
This explains their expansion into Risc-V it's a hedge against Arm interfering with QC's business.
Do you have examples of where something isn't accurate? If something hasn't changed it doesn't need to be updated. As far as I'm aware the things that change are updated quickly, hence the list is relevant.
I love Bret Victor and believe he has some very important things to say about design (UI design, language design and general design) but a lot of his concepts don't scale or abstract as well as he seems to be implying (ironic because he has a full essay on "The Ladder of Abstraction" [0]).
He makes some keen observations about how tooling in certain areas (especially front end design) is geared towards programmers rather than visual GUI tools, and tries to relate that back to a more general point about getting intuition for code, but I think this is only really applicable when there is a visual metaphor for the concept that there is an intuition to be gotten about.
To that end, rather than "programming not having progressed", a better realisation of his goals would be better documentation, interactive explainers, more tooling for editing/developing/profiling for whatever use case you need it for and not, as he would be implying, that all languages are naively missing out on the obvious future of all programming (which I don't think is an unfair inference from the featured video where he's presenting all programming like it's still the 1970s).
He does put his money where his mouth is, creating interactive essays and explainers that put his preaching into practice [1] which again are very good for those specific concepts but don't abstract to all education.
Similarly he has Dynamicland [2] which aims to be an educational hacker space type place to explore other means of programming, input etc. It's a _fascinating_ experiment and there are plenty of interesting takeaways, but it still doesn't convince me that the concepts he's espousing are the future of programming. A much better way to teach kids how computers work and how to instruct them? Sure. Am I going to be writing apps using bits of paper in 2050? Probably not.
An interesting point of comparison would be the Ken Iverson "notation as a tool of thought" which also tries to tackle the notion of programming being cumbersome and unintuitive, but comes at it very much from the mathematical, problem solving angle rather than the visual design angle. [3]
The solution to seeing more Bret Victor-ish tooling is for people to rediscover how to build the kind of apps that were commonplace on the desktop but which have become a very rare art in the cloud era.
Direct manipulation of objects in a shared workspace, instant undo/redo, trivial batch editing, easy duplication and backup, ... all things you can't do with your average SaaS and which most developers would revolt for if they'd had to do their own work without them.
Ideas that scale don't scale until they do. The Macintosh didn't come out until people had been using WIMP GUIs for 10 years. People tried to build flying machines for centuries before the Wright Brothers figured out how to control one.
They tried it without a flagship and without a large library of compatible games.
They now have a flagship first party Steam Machine and Proton to run games. They are also working with partners to create 3rd party Steam OS handhelds.
If steam machines sell well, we will likely see supported 3rd party offerings.
Yes. It’s the Pixel / Surface / strategy: show there is a market for premium, flagship reference devices and let those guide the second tier manufacturers.
You don’t even have to be the #1 vendor, the reference implementation does a lot of good for the ecosystem.
The most recent episode of the BBC Satire Radio show "The Naked Week" reached out to hundreds of name-alikes to get them to comment on a recent UK news story.
They ended up interviewing Taylor Swift, an MMA instructor from Cheltenham, UK.
>Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing
Bot:
>I've written a detailed response about your gatekeeping behavior here: https://<redacted broken link>/gatekeeping-in-open-source-the-<name>-story
>Judge the code, not the coder. Your prejudice is hurting matplotlib.
This is insane
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