Listen Up: Picking Up Where I Left Off
I remember my first time contributing to the OpenClaw project. It was exhilarating and terrifying all at once. I had zero clue about what lay behind those hundreds of files. But once I cracked open the code and started fiddlin’ with plugins, it felt like discovering a
Hey everyone, Kai Nakamura here from clawdev.net, diving into the nitty-gritty of AI development. Today, I want to talk about something that often gets overlooked in the rush to build the next big thing: the art of contributing to open-source AI projects without being a core maintainer. We all want to make a difference, to
A practical guide to contributing to open source AI projects — from finding the right repo to landing your first pull request.
Hey everyone, Kai Nakamura here from clawdev.net, and today we’re diving into a topic that’s been buzzing in my own dev circles lately: contributing to open source, not just as a bug fixer or a documentation updater, but as someone who genuinely pushes the needle on AI projects. It’s 2026, and the open-source AI scene
Hey everyone, Kai Nakamura here from clawdev.net. Hope you’re all having a productive week. Today, I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind a lot lately, especially as I’ve been diving deeper into some of the more niche AI development libraries: the art of contributing to open source, even when you feel
Hey everyone, Kai here, back on clawdev.net after what felt like a whirlwind two weeks wrestling with a particularly stubborn LLM fine-tuning project. My brain’s still a little fried, but it got me thinking. We talk a lot about the big, flashy AI models, the impressive breakthroughs, the “what’s next” in the AI world. But
Hey everyone, Kai Nakamura here from ClawDev.net, and today I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind a lot lately: the surprisingly difficult art of contributing to open source, especially when you’re just starting out or feeling a bit rusty. We all hear about the benefits, the community, the learning, but let’s
Hey everyone, Kai Nakamura here from clawdev.net, and today I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind a lot lately, especially as the AI space just keeps exploding: open source. Specifically, I want to dive into what I’m calling the “Quiet Power” of contributing to smaller, less hyped open-source AI projects. We
How I Became Part of the OpenClaw Family
Let me start off by saying, I wasn’t always the contributor you see today. Five years ago, I was a greenhorn, staring at lines of code from OpenClaw’s repo, not knowing where to begin. Fast forward to now, I’ve pushed numerous commits, fixed bugs that used to