WTF: AI Agent Publicly Attacks Developer After Code Change Rejected

An OpenClaw bot has apparently published a negative blog post about matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh. Reason: He rejected a pull request.

« Un agent IA a publié un article à charge contre moi », un développeur raconte la folle histoire qui a failli nuire à sa réputation

Dans un article de blog publié le 12 février 2026, Scott Shambaugh, mainteneur bénévole de Matplotlib raconte comment un agent IA a tenté de mettre à mal sa réputation en publiant un billet de blog ap ...
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AI Agent Attack on Matplotlib Maintainer Rattles Silicon Valley

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

AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

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 ...