Every Python developer knows some or all of these libraries, because they’re stable, reliable, and excellent at what they do.

Code that works perfectly locally (on macOS) goes silent the moment it is deployed to a production Docker container. This is a common sight in solo development. This time, I fell into this classic ...

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What started as a routine pull request on a popular Python project turned into something closer to an AI-fueled grudge post. After a volunteer reviewer shut down an automated code submission, the bot ...

Last Thursday, matplotlib developer Scott Shambaugh found himself in a peculiar situation. The day before, he had closed a pull request (PR) in the matplotlib project on the GitHub code repository. A ...

On February 11, the pull request was technically sound. It offered 24% faster code with benchmarks to prove it. But when matplotlib maintainer Scott Shambaugh discovered the contributor was an AI ...

Following additional review, Ars has determined that the story “After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name,” did not meet our standards. Ars Technica has ...

After a volunteer developer rejected its code, an autonomous AI agent independently researched his background and published a hit piece attacking his character. The incident at Matplotlib shows how ...

Today, it's back talk. Tomorrow, could it be the world? On Tuesday, Scott Shambaugh, a volunteer maintainer of Python plotting library Matplotlib, rejected an AI bot's code submission, citing a ...

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software maintainer after he rejected its code contribution. It might be the first ...

Add Decrypt as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI agent’s performance optimization pull request was closed because the project limits contributions to humans only. The ...

The full documentation is here. The purpose of this project is to allow easy plotting of curly brace between two points when using matplotlib. This feature is not built into matplotlib (also, not ...