On Monday, a pull request executed by an AI agent to the popular Python charting library matplotlib turned into a 45 comment debate about whether AI generated code belongs in open source projects. What made that debate all the more unusual was that the AI agent itself took part, going so far as to publish a blog post calling out the original maintainer by name and reputation. To be clear, an AI agent is a software tool and not a person. But what followed was a small, messy preview of an...
