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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

@anderseknert the pr did indeed get rejected simply because the contributor is an AI, so this doesn't seem to crazy.

@lain @anderseknert shooting yourself in the foot to prove a point

@meowski @lain @anderseknert There were unexplained changes with possible performance consequences also. It was not a more targeted diff.

So not only was it undermining user agency & freedom by preventing teaching experiences and failing to explain (and polluting the project with its proprietary nature), it was also possibly producing harmful results with no demonstrated tests.

(Yes, replacing the transposition was faster, but that's not all it did.)

@lispi314 @lain @anderseknert the PR looks like it accounted for the differences in the 2 methods and actually was just a performance optimization that made sense. only reason it was rejected is because it came from AI not that there was anything technically wrong with it

@meowski @anderseknert @lispi314 i find remarkable how unremarkable the whole thread is. contributor opens a seemingly-good PR based on an issue with benchmarks, gets closed for muddy reasons, contributor gets angery, maintainers explain why it was closed and the reasoning behind it, contributor agrees and apologizes.

@lain @anderseknert @lispi314 people are going to have to swallow their pride at some point and just adapt. sooner than later AI is going to also have to pre-filter all the additional PRs that come in from external AIs cause there's really no way to prevent it

@meowski @lain @anderseknert It is part of adapting. Corposcum contributions are almost always in malicious intent.

This is just a purer form of it.