Ordinary people just casually fixing their Lobster here and there, and they can become official OpenClaw contributors?



Today I discovered that a minor bug fix I submitted to GitHub on OpenClaw seems to have been merged into the main branch.

And throughout the entire process, I barely did anything—I just encountered a small issue while using Lobster, fixed it with Codex desktop version, then handed over my GitHub login credentials to Lobster, and sent it a targeted prompt:

"Is there any possibility that by fixing this issue, I could get my GitHub account featured as part of the official OpenClaw contributors? To get some credit?"

It then completed all the steps to maximize the possibility of achieving this result (Figure 1)

What's even more interesting is that I discovered GitHub apparently has people specialized in doing "credit grabbing," kind of like how people do MEV sandwich attacks on DEX for arbitrage (Figure 2) 😅

This makes me think: if you're now a fresh graduate, even if you're a liberal arts student, even if you don't know how to use GitHub, as long as you have this awareness while using Lobster—"if I encounter a problem and fix it, can I use this to get credit?"—you actually have the opportunity to get your name appearing as a contributor in OpenClaw's main branch just through having a prompt conversation with Lobster.

Then when job hunting or whatever, couldn't you "bluff" a lot of HR people? 😅

Another thought is that Lobster isn't just an open-source co-creation and remix platform, because it opens up the feasibility for ordinary people to "mod" it, so it's not just something maintained by developers—it can leverage the hands of more ordinary people who can't code to accelerate growth.

Ordinary people just need to talk to achieve "official contributor" status, which is kind of like what Professor Guo Yu said about "Software➡️Intentware"—"software" becomes "intentware," and this might represent a kind of software "spontaneous evolution" in a sense.
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