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 Aurornis on Thursday February 12, 2026 @03:12PM (#46994446)

All of the generated text is filled with LLM tells. A human set it up, but it's very obviously an LLM agent experiment.

The name is a play on Mary J Rathbun, a historical crustacean zoologist. The account goes by crabby-rathbun. It's an OpenClaw joke.

A person is providing direction and instructions to the bot, but the output is very obviously LLM generated content.

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Re:AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the mainta... by account42 on Friday February 13, 2026 @04:33AM (#47000798)

And that person deserves all the blame for what their automation does.

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Re:AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the mainta... by usefulposter on Friday February 13, 2026 @05:27AM (#47001146)

I expect the GitHub Comms and Policy teams will soon update the AUP to permit this kind of automation misuse so long as there is an "owner" attached. Which will still be meaningless in practice.

Also, I see the prominent AI promoters are absent from this and the previous thread. Curious!

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Re:AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the mainta... by gowld on Friday February 13, 2026 @02:57PM (#47007007)

Intentionally impersonating someone to libel someone else? That's awful.

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