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OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor

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Claude's contribution is 2 commits adding 4500 lines and removing 0.

I don't think people understand what this repo even is.

Claude's contribution is not significant any way you slice it.

Go look at the other users who are committers. There are giant logfiles. Other committers are +28,000 LOC on 2 commits.

Here's an example commit from another user: https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/commit/985568880b60...

Yeah, that's a great analysis you put together.

This is a company aiming for a trillion dollar public valuation, mostly built brand on and hype.

This tweet has been seen 100k times so far, plus it reached the front page of HN.

One would think they would be much more careful with their brand.

Who are you referring to? Claude? I don't understand what you're trying to say.

I am happy to make my comment much more accesible.

Yeah, that's a great analysis you (@devin) put together.

This is a company (OpenAI) aiming for a trillion dollar public valuation, mostly built on brand and hype.

This tweet (the one linked in the submission, also adding it here [1]) has been seen 100k times so far, plus it reached the front page of HN (Hacker News).

One (indefinite pronoun to refer to a generic subject) would think they (OpenAI) would be much more careful with their brand.

If there's anything else you might think needs clarification, let me know and I'll be glad to help!

1: https://x.com/CodeByNZ/status/2036723050197012771

So you were just mocking the format of my post because it's reminiscent of AI-generated text? What I wrote was perfectly clear and in no way AI-generated.

This repo is for a competition where they accept user-contributed code.

Everyone reading the Tweet or headline has incorrectly assumed that OpenAI employees were using Claude.

This is a perfect example of why you should always read past the headline or tweet at least a little bit.

I'm pretty sure they scrubbed the commit history to remove claude. Github caches the top contributors in the main page so even if you rewrite the history they remain. And in this repo you're right that if you go to the history claude's contribution shouldn't get it so high, so it follows that they scrubbed it.

Nah, it's there in the history, but they're co-authors so I think they may be showing up differently/not at all. If you just hunt the history you can find all of the co-authored entries. I think what I saw was 3-5 distinct users with commits which had a claude co-author on a subset of their commits.

If it's so little, why does Claude appear so prominently in the contributors section on GitHub?

* Having Claude add itself as co-author is a pretty smart marketing move.

* I have more respect for organizations that are willing to use competitor tools where necessary.

They should definitely be modifying Codex's commit messages to be similar.

> * I have more respect for organizations that are willing to use competitor tools where necessary.

This repo is for an open competition. They accept PR submissions. The Claude submissions presumably didn’t come from OpenAI employees.

Ah, thanks for that. Changes the story. So that leaves Meta as the only AI lab known to use a competitor lab's (Claude) products extensively.

I would argue it is an anti-pattern and irritating the core audience they want to reach with Claude Code

I have mixed feelings with this. I've just checked out my GitHub repo and just realised that Claude itself inserted as a contributor without giving me a heads up it would do it.

This feels like one of those stories that spreads because it’s too good not to.

People see that Claude is a top contributor in OpenAI related repo and jump to conclusions about what it means

Same with the Ballmer/Mac story. It sort of happened, but not really how people tell it. The Mac was there, but he wasn’t actually using it the way the story implies.

https://www.engadget.com/2008-04-30-steve-ballmer-uses-a-mac...

Codex usually dont add itself as contributor so this is misleading .

    OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor (twitter.com/codebynz)
    13 points by mirzap 19 minutes ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments

#9 here?

https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/graphs/contributors

This tweet was just reusing an earlier tweet (same image) without attribution : https://x.com/andimarafioti/status/2036107240420032874

Update the link if possible?

https://xcancel.com/CodeByNZ/status/2036723050197012771

Repo: https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf

Lol, Claude Code genuinely is the best coding assistant as a product regardless of underlying model

They’re running an open competition. They merge user-contributed submissions into the repo. Claude was attributed for 2 of them.

This is a huge nothingburger.

The only top comment in the thread that actually read past the title..

Claude code is impressively good. Some of the other models and harnesses get close, but it's a noticeable regression when I hit a limit and move to kilocode with gpt-oss:120b running locally.

but if you move to gpt-5.4 ?

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