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Yep agreed, this isn't a nice thing they're doing, it's just a ploy for more customers. Shame.

I don't get these negative comments for them giving free credits. Either it's "Not many people fit these criteria" or "A ploy for more customers". It can't be both, and I believe it's neither. It's a nice gesture, in line with Github Copilot and JetBrains. Disclosure: I have free Copilot and just applied for 20x Pro.

I mean, some people can have one of your quoted opinions, and some people can have the other. That's fine, people can not like this for their own reasons.

I applied for this, but it puts a bad taste in my mouth. I've been working on open source for over 20 years now, and while I don't expect any compensation, being offered something like this feels a little icky. If they really want to "thank" me, give it to me for free indefinitely. They've benefited immeasurably from all the open source code they've sucked in as training data. Their product literally would not exist without it.

This isn't anymore of a "ploy" then releasing new features for claude code, or acquiring bun, or any other random improvement or promotion that essentially boils down to offering more value to claude users.

All the big LLM labs do promos constantly. Sure, this one's on the stingy side considering the amount of work OSS maintainers just give out, but there's nothing wrong with promotions.

No, giving a "free" subscription that autorenews and charges you $200 if you forget to cancel is definitely a ploy

> If you have an existing paid Anthropic subscription, your current billing will be paused for the duration of the Benefit Period and will resume at your then-current plan and rate at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel. If you have an existing free Anthropic account, the Program subscription will be applied to that account and your free subscription will resume at the end of the Benefit Period, unless you cancel.

Wrong. They've explicitly stated it won't autorenew at the Max 20X tier.

You're right, I can't read

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