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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