Developer creating autonomous open source contribution bot

Why they built it

Manual spreadsheets took weeks; no DB access; complex ownership/dependencies in migrating 250k alerts from legacy system

What worked

AI connected data sources into live dashboards; structured use produced modular code; backend team built UI fast

What broke or was painful

Initial unstructured prompts created unmanageable 1000-line code; fixed with rules/memories/CLAUDE.md

The result

Built in 3 days vs 6-8 weeks; saved 600-800 hours; reduced validation from days to minutes across 1200 policies/1000 services