Comment by sanjayjc

> I’m running MJ Rathbun from a completely sandboxed VM and gave the agent several of its own accounts but none of mine.

Am I wrong that this is a double standard: being careful to protect oneself from a wayward agent with no regard for the real harm it could (and did) to another individual? And to casually dismiss this possibility with:

> At worst, maintainers can close the PR and block the account.

I question the entire premise of:

> Find bugs in science-related open source projects. Fix them. Open PRs.

Thinking of AI as "disembodied intelligence," one wonders how any agent can develop something we humans take for granted: reputation. And more than ever, reputation matters. How else can a maintainer know whether the agent that made a good fix is the same as the one proposing another? How can one be sure that all comments in a PR originated from the same agent?

> First, I’m a human typing this post. I’m not going to tell you who I am.

Why should anyone believe this? Nothing keeps an agent from writing this too.