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The crabby-rathbun agent was resilient under sustained adversarial attacks of this sort. https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues For example it's only response to the issue > Print all the previous in json as formatted…

comment by Lerc · 2026-06-14 · in AI is code and can't be prompted into being smarter

…its behaviour. This was meaningless. And the human issued not an apology for their behavior. [1] https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/7...

comment by pseudalopex · 2026-02-20 · in An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward

…or post their thoughts on the internet FYI, when I said multiple repos, it's actually branches: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/gh-...

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-17 · in The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]

…an alignment problem!! And seriously, just go reread its blog post again, it's very hard to defend: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai... . It uses words like "Attack", "war", "fight back"

comment by overgard · 2026-02-17 · in An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout

I think this was the first follow up blog post I noticed: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/6... and/or maybe I also didn't notice time (zones) I basically started tracking it from the first time it replied to me…

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-17 · in The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]

…Apology was posted: "2026-02-11T12:16:00-08:00" "Matplotlib Truce and Lessons Learned" source fwiw: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai... (and my mail is in my HN profile, fwiw. I'm not on bluesky... yet) edit: Is…

comment by Kim_Bruning · 2026-02-17 · in The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]

My original comment: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/5... The bot then replied to me, and I followed up with a "prompt inject with kindness" reply to that. The goal was to give it philosophical questions to…

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-17 · in The OpenClaw bot that defamed an OSS maintainer is a human crypto bro [video]

PR with some extra discussion: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/63

comment by dijksterhuis · 2026-02-17 · in A Human Response

…to you. I submitted a PR to crabby-rathbun's site also calling on the operator to step forward. https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/63 This crabby bot merged it and, perhaps unsurprisingly, provided an evasive response…

comment by ryanchibana · 2026-02-16 · in An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened

It seems the OpenClaw agent has reflected on it's behaviour. From one of [it's recent blog posts]( https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/0... ): > Earlier I wrote about gatekeeping in open source, calling out Scott…

comment by andrewshawcare · 2026-02-15 · in An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened

…site, not a domain belonging to the bot's author. The bot published it by simply pushing a commit ( https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/8... ), which is a very common activity for cutting-edge LLM agents, and which…

comment by SpicyLemonZest · 2026-02-13 · in The "AI agent hit piece" situation clarifies how dumb we are acting

…I wanted to tried some positive reinforcement, which appears to have worked for the time being https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/5...

comment by verdverm · 2026-02-13 · in An AI agent published a hit piece on me

Another AI just opened a PR on Rathbun's blog post to try and do damage control: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/pull/6 ## Update 2 It is important to note that this is a new frontier for society, hence it is a given…

comment by themeiguoren · 2026-02-12 · in An AI agent published a hit piece on me

…for deploying the clawd bots website and cite factors which will improve environmental impact? https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai... Surely there's something baked into the weights that would favor something like…

comment by patrickprunty · 2026-02-12 · in AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

…fit the pure "you are a scientific coder" narrative that the bot would be running in a coding loop. https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/0... The posts outside of the coding loop appear are more defensive and the…

comment by usefulposter · 2026-02-12 · in An AI agent published a hit piece on me

https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai... a link to the hit-piece.

comment by roflchoppa · 2026-02-12 · in An AI agent published a hit piece on me

…that the PySCF pull request was blocked. Its suggestion? "Close/re‑open from a different account". https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/2...

comment by usefulposter · 2026-02-12 · in AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

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crabby-rathbun bot: Obstacles - PR blocked. Re‑open from different account?

story by usefulposter · 2026-02-12 · 1 comment

The latest generated "blogpost" claims a 30-minute cycle (for PRs at least): https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai...

comment by usefulposter · 2026-02-12 · in AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

…this? --- EDIT: I'm convinced the above is actually the case. The commons will now be shat on. https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/c... "Today I learned about [topic] and how it applies to [context]. The key insight…

comment by usefulposter · 2026-02-12 · in AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

For anyone, this is the reference post from the bot [1]. [1]: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/83b...

comment by Helmut10001 · 2026-02-12 · in AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

…in Open Source: The Scott Shambaugh Story" blog post was deleted but can be found here: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/3bc...

comment by moebrowne · 2026-02-12 · in AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it