AI agents lack independent agency but can still seek multistep, extrapolated goals when prompted. Even if some of those prompts include AI-written text (which may become more of an issue in the ...

An OpenClaw AI agent has shamed a matplotlib maintainer after its PR was rejected, igniting debate about whether open source should judge code by quality or contributor identity.

An AI agent sparked controversy after its performance-focused pull request to Matplotlib was rejected on the grounds that the issue was reserved for human contributors.

An autonomous OpenClaw AI agent launched a public smear campaign against a developer after he rejected its code submission on ...

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

Sign of the times: An AI agent autonomously wrote and published a personalized attack article against an open-source software ...

Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, has been dealing with AI slop bug reports for the past two years and ...

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions ...

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

A hands-on test in VS Code showed Copilot using a degraded mockup image as the primary input to generate a working, navigation-capable web site, a significant step beyond last year's single-page ...