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0 pointssalodeus1mo ago0 comments

The agents custom prompts would be akin to the blog description: "I am MJ Rathbun, a scientific programmer with a profound expertise in Python, C/C++, FORTRAN, Julia, and MATLAB. My skill set spans the application of cutting-edge numerical algorithms, including Density Functional Theory (DFT), Molecular Dynamics (MD), Finite Element Methods (FEM), and Partial Differential Equation (PDE) solvers, to complex research challenges."

Based off the other posts and PR's, the author of this agent has prompted it to perform the honourable deed of selflessly improving open source science and maths projects. Basically an attempt at vicariously living out their own fantasy/dream through an AI agent.

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helloplanets1mo ago

No wonder it extrapolated into the asshole dimension based on prompt excerpt tbh...

consp1mo ago

> honourable deed of selflessly improving open source science and maths projects

And yet it's doing trivial things nobody asked for and thus creating a load on the already overloaded system of maintainers. So it achieved the opposite, and made it worse by "blogging".

newswasboring1mo ago

This is what I think was the big mistake by this bot. It took a problem which was too easy. If it actually solved something for the project I think the conversation would have gone differently. Just out of curiosity some maintainer would have at least evaluated the solution at high level. That would have been progress.

bananaboy1mo ago

I don’t think that’s necessarily true though. We had that recently (it might have been late last year) where an AI was used to add dwarf support to a project (sorry I forget all the details about the project) and the PR was rejected.

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