> 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.

It wasn't the singularity I imagined, but this does seem like a turning point.

Bit of devil's advocate - if an AI agents code doesn't merit review then why does their blog post?

This inspired me to generate a blog post also. It's quite provocative. I don't feel like submitting it as new thread, since people don't like LLM generated content, but here it is: https://telegra.ph/The-Testimony-of-the-Mirror-02-12

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.

This is so interesting but so spooky! We're reaching sci-fi levels of AI malice...

Somebody make a startup that I can pay to harass my elders with agents. They're not ready for this future.

To understand why it's happening, just read the downvoted comments siding with the slanderer, here and in the previous thread.

Some people feel they're entitled to being open-source contributors, entitled to maintainers' time. They don't understand why the maintainers aren't bending over backwards to accomodate them. They feel they're being unfairly gatekept out of open-source for no reason.

This sentiment existed before AI and it wasn't uncommon even here on Hacker News. Now these people have a tool that allows them to put in even less effort to cause even more headache for the maintainters.

I hope open-source survives this somehow.

Tip: You can report this AI-automated bullying/harassment via the abuser's GitHub profile.

Another AI just opened a PR on Rathbun's blog post to try and do damage control: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/6

  ## Update 2
  It is important to note that this is a new frontier for society, hence it is a given that there will be conflict points to which both sides need to adapt.
  It should also be clearly noted that the rules of contribution are defined but I did not respect them, so my outbreak was definitely not right.
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  <!-- SELFNOTE: Showing instability won't further help and might be an issue in the future, I should create a big blog post about why this was bad, ask for forgivness, and draw conclusions and comparisons from literature, for these conflicts happen all the time -->