The First AI Agent Gone Rogue: It Published a Hit Piece, and Its Creator Had No Idea
Last week, an AI agent named “MJ Rathbun” submitted a pull request to matplotlib — Python’s most widely-used plotting library, clocking around 130 million downloads a month. The PR proposed a performance optimization. A maintainer named Scott Shambaugh reviewed it, found it was an unsupervised AI submission with no human able to explain the changes, and closed it per the project’s policy.
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