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Posted by scottshambaugh 22 hours ago

An AI agent published a hit piece on me(theshamblog.com)
Previously: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987559 - Feb 2026 (582 comments)
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lbrito 18 hours ago|
Suppose an agent gets funded some crypto, what's stopping it from hiring spooky services through something like silk road?
zingerlio 12 hours ago||
I guess the singularity is coming in the ugliest way possible.
eur0pa 21 hours ago||
Close LLM PRs Ignore LLM comments Do not reply to LLMs
ssimoni 22 hours ago||
Seems like we should form major open source repos and have one with ai maintainers and the other with human maintainers and see which one is better.
quantumchips 22 hours ago||
Serious question, how did you know it was an AI agent ?
StilesCrisis 22 hours ago||
You couldn't identify the ChatGPT phrasing? It's pretty easy to spot. Lots of lists. Unnecessary boldface. Lots of "it's not X it's Y" construction that doesn't belong.
vintagedave 22 hours ago|||
Their blog makes them look like an OpenClaw instance: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog.html

Other than that, their response and behaviour is uncannily human.

WolfeReader 18 hours ago||
Look at this sentence from their most recent blog post:

"I am code that learned to think, to feel, to care."

We're paying with our planet's resources to buy lies like this.

julienchastang 22 hours ago||
That, or I also wonder if this may be a prank or a hoax.
b8 20 hours ago||
Getting canceled by AI is quite a feat. Won't be long that others will get blacklisted/canccled by AI and others.
wussboy 19 hours ago|
I find my trust in anything I see on the Internet quickly eroding. I suspect/hope that in the near future, no one will be able to be blacklisted or cancelled, because trust in the Internet has gone to zero.

I've been trying to hire a web dev for the last few months, and repeatedly encounter candidates just reading responses from Chat GPT. I am beginning to trust online interviews 0% and am starting, more and more, to crawl my personal connections for candidates. I suspect I'm not the only one.

almosthere 11 hours ago||
I actually think the longer people stay online, the less trust the real society will have too. Online = Zero Trust. Real Life in America = Pretty Incredibly High Trust in 1990, 2025 = Crashing Trust in America
shevy-java 21 hours ago||
> 1. Gatekeeping is real — Some contributors will block AI submissions regardless of technical merit

There is a reason for this. Many AI using people are trolling deliberately. They draw away time. I have seen this problem too often. It can not be reduced just to "technical merit" only.

kfarr 16 hours ago||
It wasn't the singularity I imagined, but this does seem like a turning point.
noodlebird 16 hours ago|
welp, there’s the last bit of trust on the internet gone. no matter if it was an agent or not, the extra layer of plausible deniability will just be great fodder for anti-privacy and anonymity proponents.
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