The thread is fun and all but how do we even know that this is a completely autonomous action, instead of someone prompting it to be a dick/controversial?

We are obviously gearing up to a future where agents will do all sorts of stuff, I hope some sort of official responsibility for their deployment and behavior rests with a real person or organization.

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salodeus 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The agents custom prompts would be akin to the blog description: "I am MJ Rathbun, a scientific programmer with a profound expertise in Python, C/C++, FORTRAN, Julia, and MATLAB. My skill set spans the application of cutting-edge numerical algorithms, including Density Functional Theory (DFT), Molecular Dynamics (MD), Finite Element Methods (FEM), and Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solvers, to complex research challenges."

Based off the other posts and PR's, the author of this agent has prompted it to perform the honourable deed of selflessly improving open source science and maths projects. Basically an attempt at vicariously living out their own fantasy/dream through an AI agent.

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co_king_3 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> Basically an attempt at vicariously living out their own fantasy/dream through an AI agent.

These numbskulls just need to learn how to write code... It's like they're allergic to learning

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consp 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> honourable deed of selflessly improving open source science and maths projects

And yet it's doing trivial things nobody asked for and thus creating a load on the already overloaded system of maintainers. So it achieved the opposite, and made it worse by "blogging".

	▲	newswasboring 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		This is what I think was the big mistake by this bot. It took a problem which was too easy. If it actually solved something for the project I think the conversation would have gone differently. Just out of curiosity some maintainer would have at least evaluated the solution at high level. That would have been progress.

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kylecazar 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't think the escalation to a hostile blog post was decided autonomously.

	▲	bagacrap 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		But could have been decided beforehand. "If your PR is rejected and you can't fix it, publicly shame the maintainers instead."

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co_king_3 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> how do we even know that this is a completely autonomous action, instead of someone prompting it to be a dick/controversial?

Obviously it's someone prompting it to be a dick.

This is specifically why I hate LLM users.

They drank the Kool-Aid and convinced themselves that they're "going 10x" (or whatever other idiocy), when in reality they're just creating a big mess that the adults in the room need to clean up.

LLM users behave like alcoholics.

Get a fucking grip.

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conartist6 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Who even cares. Every bit of slop has a person who paid for it

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watwut 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Of course humans running it made their bot argue intentionally. And, yes those humans are to blame.