In open source, it’s not like you recruit new developers, and those recruits go on to become maintainers. It is a community of people that voluntarily come and stay, choose to stay or leave. It’s not somebody pushing you as a developer through a pipeline. You are in charge of traveling that road.

LLMs can teach you the technology, but open source is so much more than technology. ‘People’ aspects are the difficult ones to navigate and master. Those are the things that you would learn by having that interaction with a mentor.There’s no other project that gives you this kind of fulfillment in terms of being able to work with people from across the world. If you’re like me, and you want to do that, then this is the best project.