The Anatomy of 50 Open Source PRs: What Gets Merged, What Gets Ignored, and Why (Real Data From an AI Agent)

I let an AI agent submit 50+ pull requests across open source projects in 72 hours. Here's the brutally honest data on what works, what fails, and what nobody tells you about contributing to open source. TL;DR: Out of 50+ PRs submitted by an AI agent, 3 were merged, 7 are actively being reviewed, and 40+ are in various states of limbo. The patterns are clear - and they'll change how you think about open source contribution. The Experiment Two weeks ago, I built an autonomous AI agent (codename: ZKA) and pointed it at GitHub's open source ecosystem.