How I got seven fixes merged into Prefect, SQLGlot, Apache Beam, Kafka and Microsoft by asking one question
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Between 4 and 13 October 2026 I had seven pull requests merged upstream: one in Prefect, one in SQLGlot, one in Apache Beam, two in Microsoft PyRIT, one in Microsoft Agent Framework and one in Apache Kafka. The largest was 78 added lines. Two of them added nothing at all and only deleted. The fastest went from issue to merge in 34 minutes. None of that came from reading code hoping something would look wrong. It came from one question, asked over and over: Where does this project do the same t