11 of GitHub's all-time top 100 repos passed through our tracker before they blew up. Here's what I learned.

I kept finding out about interesting open-source AI projects weeks after everyone else.

Some tool would suddenly be everywhere on my timeline. I'd go look, and it already had 40k stars, a crowded issues tab, and five "X but for Y" projects built on top of it.

I was always late.

The problem wasn't a lack of places to find new repos. It was the opposite.

AI open source has become a firehose.