My First Open Source PR (With a Lot of Help From AI)
I’ve never submitted a pull request to an open source project before. It’s one of those things that always felt like it was for other people — people who know the codebase, who understand the contributing guidelines, who won’t embarrass themselves with a bad PR. I’ve wanted to contribute for years. I just never did. Yesterday I forked a repo, added three tools, and opened a PR in about 30 minutes. Most of that time was setting up Claude to interact with GitHub so we can do this more easily next time. ...