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Re: Codex for open source

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Post by manquer »

dhshhshsj wrote: post #80
manquer wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using a plus sign is subaddressing [1] and most ESPs[2] will route to the main address ( multiple@addre.es) . So you can use use multiple+email@adress.es , multiple+xyz@adress.es and both will route the email to you. In my experience most SaaS apps do not filter this out and allow re-sign ups with sub-addresses. Gmail has an additional behavior that dot character is ignored in local component of the address . multipl…

This is not true (anymore?). I have a rather unfortunate exact naming collision with a family member. They use the full name without dot for the local gmail component, I use a dot between the first and last name. Two or three mails have been misplaced in a decade.

It is still the rules for Gmail (https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7436150?hl=en).

It would be feasible to change something like that without breaking security now.

Google can hardly start allowing/routing a new account for first.last@gmail.com when you were getting it for years even though your account is firstlast@gmail.com and sensitive communication like say from your bank would routed there.

Re: Codex for open source

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Post by idank »

htrp wrote: post #61

Anyone know how much API credit openai offers?

They give out the subscription by default, and if they find your use case interesting enough they'll give you credits. Not sure if there's an upper limit, but I would be surprised if it's more than a few hundred dollars a month.

(no internal knowledge, this is based on my experience with explainshell.com, thanks OAI!)

Re: Codex for open source

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Post by zzyxy »

EduardoBautista wrote: post #42
zmmmmm wrote: post #29

Seems rather stingy - 6 months is barely longer than you will get on a free signup deal for a lot of online products anyway. Kind of worse than nothing if it causes you to adopt work patterns that aren't sustainable for the project after the offer ends.

Which online product gives away 6 months of a $100 per month subscription?

Make it $200/month subscription which actually gives you access to O($1K) worth of codex compute. Even at the face value it is very generous, IMO.

Re: Codex for open source

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Post by olzhasar »

EduardoBautista wrote: post #42
zmmmmm wrote: post #29

Seems rather stingy - 6 months is barely longer than you will get on a free signup deal for a lot of online products anyway. Kind of worse than nothing if it causes you to adopt work patterns that aren't sustainable for the project after the offer ends.

Which online product gives away 6 months of a $100 per month subscription?

An online product that was brought into existence by processing all the open source software in the world and makes money by selling the resulting knowledge base, should be accessible free of charge by the producers of that open source software.

Re: Codex for open source

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Post by KetoManx64 »

georgemcbay wrote: post #59
ixtli wrote: post #39

If you only give 6mo then this is the opposite of a commitment to open source it’s a drug dealers tactic of giving the first taste for free.

> If you only give 6mo then this is the opposite of a commitment to open source it’s a drug dealers tactic of giving the first taste for free. Its arguably even more self-serving than the drug dealer tactic because of the feedback loop involved (if you use it to maintain your open source project, OpenAI will surely use that new code [along with all the existing code in your project] to train future models). So it wou…

Very vivid analogy that I'm never going to forget now.

Re: Codex for open source

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Post by kelnos »

Same as Anthropic's similar offer, they're only giving 6 months free. This really just feels like a way to get OSS maintainers hooked so they buy subscriptions after the free period is over.

If they were really serious about supporting OSS, they'd offer it for free perpetually (well, with periodic checks to ensure the maintainers are still affiliated with the project). Anything less just makes it look like a marketing stunt.

And also, dumb how Github-centric this is, same as Anthropic's signup form. Most of my OSS contributions aren't on Github. Guess that means the projects I've worked on don't matter.

Re: Codex for open source

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Post by baq »

fuddle wrote: post #72

"6 months of ChatGPT Pro, which includes Codex" - come on, just make it free. Last time I checked OpenAI was worth $852 billion.

This valuation is derived from the fact the three tokens aren’t free

Re: Codex for open source

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Post by einpoklum »

"Critical open source software" should not, and maybe cannot, be maintained with its development requiring huge commercial-corporate infrastructure in the form of OpenAI's LLMs.

It should be maintained by humans, relying on widely available hardware and software, requiring little of both.

Not saying that using LLMs as a convenience is forbidden or anything, but the direction is problematic.

(Also, this sounds like a cheap alternative to actually funding FOSS work.)

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