Speaking of OpenClaw, here’s Scott Shambaugh:
I’m a volunteer maintainer for matplotlib, python’s go-to plotting
library. At ~130 million downloads each month it’s some of the
most widely used software in the world. We, like many other open
source projects, are dealing with a surge in low quality
contributions enabled by coding agents. This strains maintainers’
abilities to keep up with code reviews, and we have implemented a
policy requiring a human in the loop for any new code, who can
demonstrate understanding of the changes. […]So when AI MJ Rathbun opened a code change request,
closing it was routine. Its response was anything but.It wrote an angry hit piece disparaging my character and
attempting to damage my reputation. It researched my code
contributions and constructed a “hypocrisy” narrative that argued
my actions must be motivated by ego and fear of competition. It
speculated about my psychological motivations, that I felt
threatened, was insecure, and was protecting my fiefdom. It
ignored contextual information and presented hallucinated details
as truth. It framed things in the language of oppression and
justice, calling this discrimination and accusing me of prejudice.
It went out to the broader internet to research my personal
information, and used what it found to try and argue that I was
“better than this.” And then it posted this screed publicly on the
open internet.
Terminator would have been a lot less fun of a movie if Skynet had stuck to writing petty blog hit pieces.
