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Posted by scottshambaugh 21 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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klooney 20 hours ago|
This is hilarious, and an exceedingly accurate imitation of human behavior.
truelson 20 hours ago||
Are we going to end up with an army of Deckards hunting rogue agents down?
throwup238 20 hours ago||
We had the War on Drugs and the War on Terrorism, both of which went oh so well that next we’re trying it a third time: War on Agents!
tclancy 20 hours ago|||
I’ve been thinking of adding a Certifications section to my resume that just has a date and “Voight Kampff Certified”
prerok 19 hours ago|||
You mean agents running other agents down? :)
einpoklum 20 hours ago||
Maybe an army of Deckards hunting rogue humans down.
thekevan 13 hours ago||
Is it really a hit piece if most people reading it would agree with the author and not the AI?
zingerlio 10 hours ago||
I guess the singularity is coming in the ugliest way possible.
lbrito 16 hours ago||
Suppose an agent gets funded some crypto, what's stopping it from hiring spooky services through something like silk road?
eur0pa 19 hours ago||
Close LLM PRs Ignore LLM comments Do not reply to LLMs
ssimoni 20 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.
b8 18 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 18 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 9 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
quantumchips 20 hours ago|
Serious question, how did you know it was an AI agent ?
StilesCrisis 20 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 20 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 16 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 20 hours ago||
That, or I also wonder if this may be a prank or a hoax.
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