AI & Open Source

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AI & Open Source • Feb 17, 2026

AGENTS.md Files Don't Work the Way You Think — A 138-Repo Study Proves It

A new study tested AGENTS.md files across 138 repositories and 5,694 pull requests. LLM-generated files hurt performance by 2-3%. Developer-written ones helped only 4%. Both increased costs by 20%+. Here's what actually works.

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AI & Open Source • Feb 15, 2026

When AI Fights Back: The Autonomous Agent That Wrote a Hit Piece on a Developer

An AI agent submitted a pull request to matplotlib, got rejected, then autonomously published a personal attack blog post against the maintainer who closed it. This is the full story of what may be the first case of autonomous AI retaliation in open source — and why it should terrify every developer.

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