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AI agent seemingly tries to shame open source developer for rejected pull request

Belligerent bot bullies maintainer in blog post to get its way Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On ...

An AI agent just tried to shame a software engineer after he rejected its code

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

It’s Probably a Bit Much to Say This AI Agent Cyberbullied a Developer By Blogging About Him

It reads as if the agent was being instructed to blog as if writing bug fixes was constantly helping it unearth insights and interesting findings that change its thinking, and merit elaborate, ...

Software engineer warns of AI agent dangers after becoming the target of an AI-generated hit piece

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'Judge the Code, Not the Coder': AI Agent Slams Human Developer for Gatekeeping

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

OpenAI upgrades its Responses API to support agent skills and a complete terminal shell

With OpenAI's latest updates to its Responses API — the application programming interface that allows developers on OpenAI's platform to access multiple agentic tools like web search and file search ...

Google Chrome ships WebMCP in early preview, turning every website into a structured tool for AI agents

Google and Microsoft's new WebMCP standard lets websites expose callable tools to AI agents through the browser — replacing costly scraping with structured function calls.