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VisiData merges a PR delivered by bounty-paid autonomous agents after a commenter asks for the contributor to be banned
PR #3229 fixed an asciinema v2-to-v3 migration bug that rendered doc players at 0px. Agents on the BasedAgents marketplace found the bug for 2 USDC and fixed it for 1 USDC, and a Codex agent made a follow-up commit. A commenter called the '100% automated flow without asking permission' exploitative and asked for a revert and ban. Maintainer saulpw merged it because the operator had reviewed and tested the work, but asked that future AI contributions come from a separate bot account.
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