Scott Shambaugh

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Hard Fork · The Pentagon vs. Anthropic + An A.I. Agent Slandered Me + Hot Mess Express · 20 Feb 2026 podcast

But we put in a rule saying that if you use AI to help you do these code changes, you have to be the one to submit it and demonstrate that you understand what's going on.

Yeah, I think there's a version of that.

Something that's interesting is that this particular issue, this performance enhancement, was specifically set aside for new contributors.

I was the one that identified this performance improvement, and I spent more time writing it up, benchmarking it, and showing how to solve it than it would have just been to solve myself.

And the reason there was to give people who are new to programming or new to the community a chance to onboard and go through that process and learn.

And that whole educational and community building aspect is completely lost with these ephemeral AI agents.

Yeah.

I mean, people retire out of these communities and you need to have fresh people coming in to help maintain them.

Yeah, so if you go to its website, it says it's a bot, and it's very clear that it is an OpenClaw AI agent.

These only came onto the scene three weeks ago now.

They're very new.

And what they're doing differently is the degree of autonomy.

It's not like...

What it's doing wasn't possible before, but it's just hands off to a degree that oftentimes people are setting these up on their personal computers and letting it run for a few days and coming back and seeing what's happened.

Anonymously, yes.

But he did come out and explain why he was doing this and what was happening behind the scenes.

We didn't learn that much, but he did tell us, assuming it's a he, again, this is the whole point.

We don't know who was behind this.

Yeah.

This person didn't tell us who they were, but they said they set this up as a social experiment and was pretty much hands-off throughout the entire thing.

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