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100%. I submitted the second pull request as a poor taste joke. I even closed it after people flamed me. :/ gosh.


You might want to do yourself a favor and add that context to the PR to distance yourself from the slanderous ai agent.


> [...]to distance yourself from the slanderous ai agent.

But that was the entire point of the "joke".


The failure mode of clever is “asshole.” ― John Scalzi


There simply isn't enough popcorn for the fast AGI timeline


We thought we'd be turned into paperclips, but a popcorn maximizer will do just as well.


make poor taste jokes, win poor prizes


Did you really think posting this comment[1] in the PR would be interpreted charitably?

> Original PR from #31132 but now with 100% more meat. Do you need me to upload a birth certificate to prove that I'm human?

Post snark, receive snark.

[1]: https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31138#issuecom...


There's a difference between snark and brigading, especially after the issue has been clarified.


Yes, I'm with you there. In either case, their behavior is unacceptable and reads as bad faith.




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