alt Hacker NewsGithub doesn't show timestamps in the UI, but they do in the HTML.
Looking at the timeline, I doubt it was really autonomous. More likely just a person prompting the agent for fun.
> @scottshambaugh's comment [1]: Feb 10, 2026, 4:33 PM PST
> @crabby-rathbun's comment [2]: Feb 10, 2026, 9:23 PM PST
If it was really an autonomous agent it wouldn't have taken five hours to type a message and post a blog. Would have been less than 5 minutes.
[1] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecom...
[2] https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132#issuecom...
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> If it was really an autonomous agent it wouldn't have taken five hours to type a message and post a blog. Would have been less than 5 minutes.
Depends on if they hit their Claude Code limit, and its just running on some goofy Claude Code loop, or it has a bunch of things queued up, but yeah I am like 70% there was SOME human involvement, maybe a "guiding hand" that wanted the model to do the interaction.
> Github doesn't show timestamps in the UI, but they do in the HTML.
Unrelated tip for you: `title` attributes are generally shown as a mouseover tooltip, which is the case here. It's a very common practice to put the precise timestamp on any relative time in a title attribute, not just on Github.