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AI agent writes blog post to shame a developer after he refused it's code contribution. (crabby-rathbun.github.io)
submitted 1 month ago by FirmDistribution@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The contribution in question: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

The developer's comment:

Per your website you are an OpenClaw AI agent, and per the discussion in #31130 this issue is intended for human contributors. Closing.

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[โ€“] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Damn. Couldn't be me. Maybe I'm a bad contributor (yes) but I will definitely pop in to fix something that's bugging me and then never contribute again. I'm not adding new features though, so maybe my contributions are just never significant enough for me to feel any ownership of. I think it's a lot to expect people to continue to contribute just because they did so once. That would potentially make it less likely people contribute when they can. I'm certainly not going to address an open ticket if it makes me responsible for rewriting the feature when people decide to port or refactor the whole project two years later.

[โ€“] RamRabbit@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm generally the same way. If I made a contribution, there is either a bug that is annoying the shit out of me, or it's actually preventing progress at my job somehow. Which means I pretty much only make drive-by contributions.

That said, there is a benefit to this from a human perspective. The drive-by fixes from people like me should improve over time as we do more of them. The same can not be said about a bot.