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Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts / Creator Vintagecomputing.com, The Culture of Tech
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Benj Edwards' diverse interests in science and the arts inspire his written works on the past, present, and future of technology. As a collector and student of vintage computers and video games for over 20 years, he brings a deep sense of tech history to publications such as The Atlantic, FastCompany, PC World, Macworld, Edge, and PCMag.

Edwards is also founder and Editor-in-Chief of Vintage Computing and Gaming (VC&G), a regularly updated blog dedicated to classic technology. VC&G's unusual d…

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After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

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By Benj Edwards, Kyle Orland Verified
| Ars Technica Verified
One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack. On Monday, a pull request executed by an AI agent to the popular Python charting library matplotlib turned into a 45-comment debate about whether AI-generated code belongs in open source projects. What made that debate all the more unusual was that the AI agent itself took part, going so far as to publish a blog post calling out the original maintainer by name and reputation.
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After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

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By Benj Edwards, Kyle Orland Verified
| neocities.org
One developer is struggling with the social implications of a drive-by AI character attack. On Monday, a pull request executed by an AI agent to the popular Python charting library matplotlib turned into a 45-comment debate about whether AI-generated code belongs in open source projects. What made that debate all the more unusual was that the AI agent itself took part, going so far as to publish a blog post calling out the original maintainer by name and reputation.
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After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

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By Benj Edwards, Kyle Orland Verified
| Flipboard
2 hours ago AI coding models are doing the work at Spotify. According to the music streaming platform Spotify and its co-CEO Gustav Söderström, the company's best developers "have not written a single line of code since December.” Yet Spotify continues to roll out new features at the same pace, with more than …
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