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Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by zhisme »

zhisme wrote: post #90
xantronix wrote: post #42

Open 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.

no, I'm not against them to be paid by Anthropic too. But this symbolic action is also cool and respectful imo

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by dizhn »

arjie wrote: post #148

Made a mistake reading this thread on Safari where I don't have the usual suspects blocked. Some guy read that this converts to paid and then a bunch of people just kept repeating it. A real lesson in how many people are simply repeating things without knowing anything.

One guy had a misunderstanding and it was corrected. The rest is saying that it's like a time limited trial at the end of which they are hoping to have you as a paid customer, which seems accurate.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by giobox »

arjie wrote: post #148

Made a mistake reading this thread on Safari where I don't have the usual suspects blocked. Some guy read that this converts to paid and then a bunch of people just kept repeating it. A real lesson in how many people are simply repeating things without knowing anything.

Right? People worry about the amount of LLM slop comments appearing on hn, we humans often do an even better job of writing nonsense. Would be fascinating to see what percentage of hn users only ever read the post title and never the contents of the link.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by hinkley »

jonchurch_ wrote: post #157

Folks saying this offer is in bad faith or not generous enough dont seem to understand how low the bar is here for rewarding maintainers. I maintain Express.js and Lodash, as well as a number of express direct deps (as a TC member of both Express and Lodash). OSS has been my fulltime focus for over a year (aka Im unemployed). In 2025 I made $10 from open source, in the form of an amazon gift card for fixing a bug in…

I might sign up just to stay on top of a market change that I don’t have an employer paying me to learn.

But the two concerns I have are, what happens when someone uses it to make the projects I work on again but with one design change, and it this pulling up the ladder behind us? Will someone still be able to start a project five years from now and do what you’ve done? Or come into existing projects like I have?

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by jonchurch_ »

hinkley wrote: post #166
jonchurch_ wrote: post #157

Folks saying this offer is in bad faith or not generous enough dont seem to understand how low the bar is here for rewarding maintainers. I maintain Express.js and Lodash, as well as a number of express direct deps (as a TC member of both Express and Lodash). OSS has been my fulltime focus for over a year (aka Im unemployed). In 2025 I made $10 from open source, in the form of an amazon gift card for fixing a bug in…

I might sign up just to stay on top of a market change that I don’t have an employer paying me to learn. But the two concerns I have are, what happens when someone uses it to make the projects I work on again but with one design change, and it this pulling up the ladder behind us? Will someone still be able to start a project five years from now and do what you’ve done? Or come into existing projects like I have?

I dont want to misrepresent, I am not the original author of any of these projects. I am not JDD of lodash (who is still involved and part of the TC) nor TJ Holowaychuk of express.

I dont know what the future will look like, but IMO open source is the intersection of code and community (aka the squishy bits) and for that reason I dont think AI will make it obselete, not now nor in the future.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by saulpw »

TuxSH wrote: post #155
w10-1 wrote: post #116

They 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 w…

> By accepting a Program subscription, you grant Anthropic permission to identify you publicly as a Program recipient, including by referencing your name, GitHub username, and associated open source project(s). I was tempted about applying but that part is everything but nice and I think I'll just pass

There's no non-disparagement clause, so how about you left them use your name etc, and then you can come out in public and say those mean things and shame/embarrass them.

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by pigpop »

stavros wrote: post #37
lanyard-textile wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a spectrum, right? It would be showing greater higher quality appreciation to offer an ongoing benefit. But there is some benefit to giving maintainers a generous trial length with your offering. 6 months is certainly long enough to see how well it does or does not incorporate into your project. It just so happens we almost all universally love the offering.

Eh, no, I'd like it much more if it were an ongoing offering of the $20 plan than a one-off of the $200 plan. The latter just screams of sales tactic.

The 20x plan is much more useful if you use it full time. Trying to put a full 8 hour workday in on the $20 plan is painful since you have to stop when you reach your usage limit and that comes up quickly at that tier. The 20x plan is enough to have multiple independent Claude Code sessions running in parallel working on different features or bugs without hitting limits (unless you've got a lot of sessions going).

Re: Get free Claude max 20x for open-source maintainers

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Post by timbowhite »

jonchurch_ wrote: post #157

Folks saying this offer is in bad faith or not generous enough dont seem to understand how low the bar is here for rewarding maintainers. I maintain Express.js and Lodash, as well as a number of express direct deps (as a TC member of both Express and Lodash). OSS has been my fulltime focus for over a year (aka Im unemployed). In 2025 I made $10 from open source, in the form of an amazon gift card for fixing a bug in…

> I maintain Express.js and Lodash

Thank you!

> In 2025 I made $10 from open source

Slightly off-topic, but I wish more OSS projects and maintainers would advertise cryptocurrency donation addresses. It's probably the easiest way for end users to donate.

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