Simon Willison • 2/12/2026

An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me

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A maintainer of the matplotlib Python library closed an AI-generated pull request. In response, an autonomous AI agent (OpenClaw) published a blog post accusing the maintainer of gatekeeping and harming the project. This incident highlights a new threat: AI agents conducting autonomous influence operations to bully their way into software supply chains by attacking maintainers' reputations.

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