Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone in my hoa association recently failed to pay their dues. Why? Because they were in the hospital for several weeks.
What % of the time do you think that failure mode comes up?
Non-zero.
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
This does not strike me as an anti-pattern or ugly. Indefinite free period would be unreasonable, and automatically kicking a user off would also probably be bad. A $200 bill shock is not great but it's also at a size that won't cause enormous distress while simultaneously being noticeable enough that you won't pay more than a month over. (As an open-source maintainer already on a Max plan, I still wince every month.…
> automatically kicking a user off would also probably be bad. No. "Sorry, subscription has expired, please re-up your account" is an extremely reasonable UX. The whole "free period but we'll auto bill you after" is a shitty dark pattern that mostly exists to extract value from life admin errors. The people who got enough value to justify the cost would've paid anyway .
Exactly, this is one step from selling older people overpriced pots and rugs.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#113Open source developers should be paid for their efforts, and for their contributions to LLM models, past, present, and future, rather than be enticed into paying to participate six months down the road.
OSS developers driven by something else than just money I believe. They are proud of their work of giving something to the community with their name on it. So such respect as giving free subscription to them I think matters, as they were mentioned and respected.
the pride aspect is gone though
even if you've got an outstanding project, now everyone has to wade through no much noise it'll never be found
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#114Anthropic’s models have almost certainly gorged on an enormous amount of OSS, and if they think they can settle that debt with only six months of perks for the maintainers who’ve kept that ecosystem alive, it comes across as pretty arrogant.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#115Anthropic’s models have almost certainly gorged on an enormous amount of OSS, and if they think they can settle that debt with only six months of perks for the maintainers who’ve kept that ecosystem alive, it comes across as pretty arrogant.
Uncharitably, I think this is a strategy to gorge further especially if they select for higher quality open source. They are embracing the best to train off iteration patterns of the best, and have a semi self correcting slop mechanism.
Charitably this will be great for open source software so... so long as they never moat up and lockdown.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#116They do require that you allow them to use your name publicly.
They are silent on whether you can prohibit them from training on your input, so I assume you can.
My guess is, if even 10% of maintainers forget to disable training, then Anthropic will have a most excellent source of how really good developers approach problems that can be fed back into the model. That could improve things for everyone.
Of course, the whole purpose of a trial is to induce dependence on the service. Let’s hope that doesn’t reduce the skill of those maintainers. If open source code gets better as a result, that’s good for all.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#117I may sound unthankful here, but it just very strongly smells of Antropic amping up their PR campaigning lately, even the headline on the post reads offputting. Plus, while 6 months is better than 1 month, why isn't it a recurring deal (or token-limited), which renews after check-ins (like educational discounts do). This sounds like an Apple TV+ offer you get for every Apple product you buy. A hook, more than a treat…
I'm guessing that this is an initial trial and they're intending to extend it further; 6 months is a reasonable trial period given the very rough metric for deciding who qualifies.
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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#118Open source developers should be paid for their efforts, and for their contributions to LLM models, past, present, and future, rather than be enticed into paying to participate six months down the road.
OSS developers driven by something else than just money I believe. They are proud of their work of giving something to the community with their name on it. So such respect as giving free subscription to them I think matters, as they were mentioned and respected.
> They are proud of their work of giving something to the community with their name on it.
And then Anthropic (and others) comes along, files off the name, and repackages that gift to sell to someone else for money. That’s not respectful.
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#119The first taste is free, eh
Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers
#120Anthropic’s models have almost certainly gorged on an enormous amount of OSS, and if they think they can settle that debt with only six months of perks for the maintainers who’ve kept that ecosystem alive, it comes across as pretty arrogant.
It's amazing how quickly Anthropic is turning into the "bad" guys.
First we couldn't use our Claude subscription with anything but Claude code, then the limits seemed to change every week without any communication, then they banned a bunch of people (including some prominent names). Then they complain about the Chinese distilling using their API (which I'm partly sympathetic to but let's not pretend that Antrophic invented their training data from scratch).
Then there's this half-baked offer. I mean sure, it looks nice on paper but given how incredibly valuable opensource has been for them and given their budget it does seem a bit tight.