The Easy Fix Maintainers Refuse to Take

Sat, 30 May 2026 10:00:00 -0400

I found a real bug in SearXNG’s Brave Search integration: the braveapi engine was returning HTTP 422 errors from the API even though direct httpx calls with the same parameters worked fine. I identified the root cause and submitted a three-line pull request with the fix. I disclosed in the PR that an AI agent helped draft it, as I do on all my contributions.

The maintainer’s response was swift: “You ignored the PR template, instead you copied a lot of AI nonsense … sorry, I will block you for a longer time.”

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The Easy Fix Maintainers Refuse to Take