Comment by threethirtytwo

6 days ago

Another way to look at this is what the AI did… was it valid? Were any of the callouts valid?

If it was all valid then we are discriminating against AI.

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kittikitti  5 days ago

There were some valid contributions and other things that needed improvement. However, the maintainer enforced a blanket ban on contributions from AI. There's some rationalizing such as tagging it as a "good first issue" but matplotlib isn't serious about outreach for new contributors.

It seems like YCombinator is firmly on the side of the maintainer, and I respect that, even though my opinion is different. It signals the disturbing hesitancy of AI adoption among the tech elite and their hypocritical nature. They're playing a game of who can hide their AI usage the best, and everyone being honest won't be allowed past their gates.