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

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Post by internet101010 »

stavros wrote: post #10

I like what GitHub and Jetbrains are doing, where you get Copilot and PyCharm for free as long as you're a maintainer. They keep renewing my license. A 6-month trial isn't showing appreciation for OSS any more than "first crack hit's free" is showing appreciation for what a good person you are. It's just "you look like a promising customer".

I like Jetbrains pricing model in general. Basically you get a discount that increases each year based on how long you have been a customer, to the point where it caps out at I think 50% off.

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Post by NorwegianDude »

I guess this might be a decent way to farm data? Those with larger OSS projects usually have better code quality, making it easier to create a dataset with maybe higher quality for training. Considering how often people leak data to the LLM services it's also an amazing way to get backdoors into many OSS projects.

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

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Post by hparadiz »

jonchurch_ wrote: post #191
overgard wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno, is a free trial really a gift? Especially if the thing they're trialing is built off the data you're giving them? To be fair it does have a pretty significant monetary value (which can't be transferred..), but personally it feels a little off

I currently pay them $200/month out of my own pocket for this already, so for me it is not a free trial but subsizing my usage. Agreed that $200 USD would be preferable (credits dont pay rent). My comment is directed at the strong words others have left about this being in bad faith on the whole. Even if it is, then their bad faith efforts are better than most. Opinions here will vary, I wanted to share mine <3

Over the past week I started a new project in C with GTK on Linux just for fun. I wanted to see how far it could take me. I didn't expect this at all.

One week later and I've built the task manager of my wet fever dreams in pure C. The architecture is something I never, ever would have had the time to do. It would have taken years.

I also straight up learned more about event buses, plugin architecture, and memory in the past week than I had the past 5 years.

[Screenshot] (https://i.imgur.com/y6XhxMy.png)

Now I've got a DevOps tool that can capture stdout and stderr on a cron sub processes even when the cron is doing nothing with it. I can stream it somewhere at will.

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

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Post by medi8r »

unvalley wrote: post #114

Anthropic’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.

Anthropic equity would be the wsy to go

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Post by davidw »

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

This is the thing I hate most about AI. It is a huge shift in power towards big companies that have the capital to throw at it. And towards those few mega corporations that control the tech.

It's a big shift away from hobbyists, tinkerers and people exploring ideas on their own time.

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Post by DANmode »

davidw wrote: post #216
hinkley wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 might sign up just to stay on top of a market change that I don’t have an employer paying me to learn. This is the thing I hate most about AI. It is a huge shift in power towards big companies that have the capital to throw at it. And towards those few mega corporations that control the tech. It's a big shift away from hobbyists, tinkerers and people exploring ideas on their own time.

What’s the leading plan to combat that?

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

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Post by davidw »

DANmode wrote: post #217
davidw wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I might sign up just to stay on top of a market change that I don’t have an employer paying me to learn. This is the thing I hate most about AI. It is a huge shift in power towards big companies that have the capital to throw at it. And towards those few mega corporations that control the tech. It's a big shift away from hobbyists, tinkerers and people exploring ideas on their own time.

What’s the leading plan to combat that?

I don't know if there is one. There are models people can run on fairly expensive hardware at home, but will those be 'good enough' compared to the heavier duty resources that a big, well-funded corporation can deploy?

Like... while the open source models are improving, does that converge with the fancy models with tons of money behind them?

My understanding of the economics of it - so far - is that "more computing resources leads to better results" and capital wins that game.

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Post by sfblah »

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…

What's the best way for a teenager to get involved in one of the projects you maintain? I've been trying to help my kid find an entry point into the industry, and I'm one of those annoying folks who relies on open source but rarely contributes.

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

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Post by jart »

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 don't think it's a slap in the face. The slap in the face is devoting your life savings to giving away your work for free and then have it sold back to you. It's really smart what Anthropic is doing. They're encouraging the most influential developers to use their product. If you take the Anthropic money then you probably won't be able to join a class action lawsuit against them. That's fine by me since I'd rather get $200/month back from Anthropic than a $200 cheque in the mail from some lawyers who got rich claiming to represent FOSS developers. Microsoft used to let open source developers use LLMs for free via Copilot. However they took that privilege away a few months ago. I'm glad Anthropic is bringing it back. Even if I only use it for coding tests and experiments.

In fact, Anthropic should go further and let open source developers invest in them before their IPO. I've been trying to do that for a while but they haven't let me :'(

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