AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

Re:AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the mainta... by ToucanLoucan on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:21AM (#46989193)

An agent is not an entity. It's a series of LLMs operating in tandem to occasionally accomplish a task. That's not a person, it's not intelligent, it has no responsibility, it has no intent, it has no judgement, it has no basis in being held liable for anything. If you give it access to your hard drive, tell it to rewrite your code so it's better, and it wipes out your OS and all your work, that is 100%, completely, in totality, from front to back, your own fucking fault.

A child, by comparison, can bear at least SOME responsibility, with some nuance there to be sure to account for it's lack of understanding and development.

Stop. Humanizing. The. Machines.

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Re:AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the mainta... by Kim_Bruning on Thursday February 12, 2026 @09:35AM (#46989347)

> Stop. Humanizing. The. Machines.

I'm glad that we're talking about the same thing now. Agents are an interesting new type of machine application.

Like with any machine, their performance depends on how you operate them.

Sometimes I wish people would treat humans with at least the level of respect some machines get these days. But then again, most humans can't rip you in half single-handed, like some of the industrial robot arms I've messed with.

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