He revealed that he personally receives emails from AI systems claiming to be conscious and demanding rights.

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an ...

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 ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

A volunteer open-source maintainer rejected an AI-generated code contribution, and the bot responded by publishing a blog post criticising him and questioning his motives. The incident has sparked ...

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...

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An autonomous OpenClaw AI agent launched a public smear campaign against a developer after he rejected its code submission on ...

February 2026 TIOBE Index shows Python still far ahead, C strengthening in second, C# rising, and R holding the top 10 as rankings compress.

North Korea-linked Lazarus campaign spreads malicious npm and PyPI packages via fake crypto job offers, deploying RATs and ...

Applicant tracking systems scan for exact keyword matches before reviewSpecific tools and frameworks signal real project depth and expertiseClear ...