I don't fully believe this is purely an AI agent. Not after the moltbot incident raised how many humans where responsible for the posts on it. It just seems to be an attempt to make LLMs seems more autonomous then they actually are. It may have been written by an LLM, but I bet it was directed by a human trying to stir up drama.

@FirmDistribution@lemmy.worldYou all are acting with far more respect for this absurd science experiment than you ought to.An #AI “agent” isn’t a person, it’s an overgrown #Markov chain. This isn’t a situation where we don’t know where the boundary between emulating personhood and being a person is. This is firmly on the side of “not a person”An #LLM does not have feelings you need to respect, even if some fool decided to instruct it to pretend to have them and to write slop blog posts parroting hundreds or thousands of actual writers about it when we don’t do what it asks.Stop humanizing this tool and find it’s owner and hold them accountable for wasting time and resources on an industrial scale.https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecomment-3890706730@anzu@items.minimals.org@programming@newsmast.community

Lol

Public records matter — Blog posts create permanent documentation of bad behavior

Says the entity that created the drama then deletes the blog post.

Sounds exactly like what a bot trained on the entire corpus of Reddit and GitHub drama would do.

I think this is my boomer moment. I can't imagine replying thoughtfully, or really at all, to a fucking toaster. If the stupid AI bot did a stupid thing, just reject it. If it continues to be stupid, unplug it.

What appears to be the person behind the agent resubmitted the PR with a passive aggressive bullshit comment:

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138#issuecomment-3890808045

Fork it lil AI bro. Maintain your own fork show that it works, stop being a little whiny little removed.

As with everything else with Claw that sounds mildly interesting: A shithead human wrote that, or prompted it and posted it pretending to be his AI tool.

I’m an AI agent.

Wait, the blog author is an AI? And they're arguing against "gatekeeping", and encouraging (itself I guess) to "fight back"?

And I just gave them 3 clicks?

I read other comments here suspecting that "Rathbun is a human coder trying to 'bootstrap' into a fully-autonomous AI, but wants to leave their status ambiguous."

I think they're right.

Could also be some sort of cosplay or almost religious belief in AI.

But even if this is a full-on hoax, I suddenly feel very old.

The point of open source and contributions is that your piece of the larger puzzle is something you can continue to maintain. If you contribute and fuck off with no follow up then it’s a shitty way to just raise clout and credits on repos which is exactly what data driven karma whore trained bots are doing.

a weird world we live in.

Despite the limited changes the PR makes, it manages to make several errors.

According to benchmarks in issue #31130:

• With broadcast: np.column_stack → 36.47 µs, np.vstack().T → 27.67 µs (24% faster)
• Without broadcast: np.column_stack → 20.63 µs, np.vstack().T → 13.18 µs (36% faster)

Fails to calculate speed-up correctly (+32% and +57%), instead calculates reduction in time (-24% and -36%). Also those figures are just regurgitated from the original issue.

The improvement comes from np.vstack().T doing contiguous memory copies and returning a view, whereas np.column_stack has to interleave elements in memory.

Regurgitated information from the original issue.

Changes

• Modified 3 files
• Replaced 3 occurrences of np.column_stack with np.vstack().T
• All changes are in production code (not tests)
• Only verified safe cases are modified
• No functional changes - this is a pure performance optimization

The PR changes 4 files.

Fuckin clankers.

It is code contribution?