So, you submit a feature request for an open-source project and offer to put together a pull request (which the maintainer even welcomed).

Then, you sit down, painstakingly build a fully-fledged new feature into the project, and submit a pull request—only for nothing to happen for four months.
In the meantime, several other people ask about the feature and even point toward your pull request, which is just waiting to be merged.

And what happens today?
A new release of the software comes out, and the feature is now included.
But my pull request is still open. I check the commit history and see that it was implemented five days ago—by Claude.
I take a look at it today, and, well... it’s a half-baked implementation that immediately causes other issues (my version was much more stable and didn’t have those negative side effects elsewhere).

I rarely contribute to open-source projects—mostly due to a lack of time—and things like this are just even more demotivating...

#OpenSource #GitHub #noAI #Claude