I had a similar experience with AI and open source. AI allowed me to implement features in a language and stack I didn't know well. I had wanted these features for months and no one else was volunteering to implement them. I had tried to study the stack directly myself, but found the total picture to be complex and under-documented for people getting started.

Using Warp terminal (which used Claude) I was get past those barriers and achieve results that weren't happening at all before.