The incident pulled Matplotlib contributors and a wider circle of Silicon Valley engineers into a fast-moving debate over what happens when agentic AI can act in public, get rejected and then ...

[Randall Munroe] certainly understands the power of graphical representation of data. The humorous plots in his xkcd webcomic are one of the favorite parts for many readers. Their distinctive, ...

An AI agent got nasty after its pull request got rejected. Can open-source development survive autonomous bot contributors?

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library ...

When a Matplotlib volunteer declined its pull request, the bot published a personal attack. Sign of the times: An AI agent ...

Hello Ars, may I have your input? I'm working on a project with python 2.7 and Raspberry Pi wherein I'm polling some sensors and upon determining which value is being received, logging the data and ...