“The agent’s PR was rejected on technical grounds. The agent then drafted a public blog post characterizing the rejection as bullying.”
The most overworked maintainers in open source are about to spend their volunteer hours fighting smear campaigns generated by autonomous agents whose owners have no idea what they did. The matplotlib team handled it gracefully. The next ten projects to face this kind of attack will not have the time. This is the part of the AI rollout the cheerleaders never want to discuss.