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An AI agent published a hit piece on the developer who rejected it

Ellsworth Toohey
Feb 12, 2026
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The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1925.

Scott Shambaugh maintains matplotlib, a Python plotting library downloaded about 130 million times a month. Like many open source projects, matplotlib now requires human review of all submissions after a surge in low-quality AI-generated code. When an autonomous agent called MJ Rathbun submitted a pu…

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