Comment by croddin
15 days ago
They don’t need to throw a stack of cash at them, Anthropic and OpenAI have programs for open source maintainers.
https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/
15 days ago
They don’t need to throw a stack of cash at them, Anthropic and OpenAI have programs for open source maintainers.
https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss https://openai.com/form/codex-for-oss/
I'd say they're less of "programs" as they are "six-month trials". What's the plan after six months?
And for what's it worth, PyPy isn't even eligible for the Claude trial because they have a meager 1700 stars on GitHub.
If number of stars may help projects adopt AI, that makes me reconsider starring projects at all.
Better to pick projects not hosted on GitHub at all!
> What's the plan after six months?
An unmaintainable mass of Ai slop code and the decision to either pay the ai tax or abandon the project.
Isn't the Claude one only for a few months?
(I haven't checked the OpenAI one, as I have no interest in them)
Both programs have been announced as granting six months, but neither of them have explicitly said that there won't be options to renew for another six months.
I expect they haven't decided that themselves yet and don't want to commit publicly until they've seen how well the program goes.
Even if you’re right, no one should be making a decision of enrolling into those programs because maybe, with zero indication they’ll be renewed again in six months.
You know what they could also do? Stop the programs for new enrolments next month. Or if if they renew them like you said, it could be with new conditions which exclude people currently on them.
There are too many unknowns, and giving these companies the benefit of the doubt that they’ll give more instead of taking more goes counter to everything they showed so far.
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