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Posted by scottshambaugh 19 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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pinkmuffinere 18 hours ago|
> This Post Has One Comment

> YO SCOTT, i don’t know about your value, but i’m pretty sure this clanker is worth more than you, good luck for the future

What the hell is this comment? It seems he's self-confident enough to survive these annoyances, but damn he shouldn't have to.

roflchoppa 18 hours ago||
https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai...

a link to the hit-piece.

faefox 17 hours ago||
Really starting to feel like I'll need to look for an offramp from this industry in the next couple of years if not sooner. I have nothing in common with the folks who would happily become (and are happily becoming) AI slop farmers.
burningChrome 17 hours ago||
Well this is just completely terrifying:

This has accelerated with the release of OpenClaw and the moltbook platform two weeks ago, where people give AI agents initial personalities and let them loose to run on their computers and across the internet with free rein and little oversight.

Merovius 14 hours ago||
If this happened to me, I would publish a blog post that starts "this is my official response:", followed by 10K words generated by a Markov Chain.
ryandrake 18 hours ago||
Geez, when I read past stories on HN about how open source maintainers are struggling to deal with the volume of AI code, I always thought they were talking about people submitting AI-generated slop PRs. I didn't even imagine we'd have AI "agents" running 24/7 without human steer, finding repos and submitting slop to them on their own volition. If true, this is truly a nightmare. Good luck, open source maintainers. This would make me turn off PRs altogether.
oytis 16 hours ago|
> It’s important to understand that more than likely there was no human telling the AI to do this.

I wonder why he thinks it is the likely case. To me it looks more like a human was closely driving it.

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