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> CodePath, an Anthropic nonprofit partner and America’s largest provider of collegiate computer science education, will act as the fellows’ official employer of record and lead programming during the fellowship.

So your job is to be an FDE to sell Claude into non-profits.... but without ever actually working for Anthropic.

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That’s how it sounds

Why everything they do sounds shady?

Probably because it is shady?

To express deeper subtlety and nuance for Anthropic's position, they are riding the wave of the announced destruction of the white collar class.

This is their way of justification and assuagement.

It is a noble sentiment, but also a token gesture.

I'm not saying it's shady.

> So your job is to be an FDE to sell Claude into non-profits....

Being forward deployed engineer is to work with a particular business helping them out with the solution that your tech company du jour makes.

> but without ever actually working for Anthropic.

I didn't really get the impression that they work for Anthropic as it is a 12 month thing and then it's done. So you're not seen as something long-term, nor do you get one of those juicy tech salaries (which I'd assume is something that Anthropic pays if they see you as a long-term fit).

Whether you find that shady is up to you. I didn't even think that far ahead mate.

This is just a very specific nasty thing they will do to you, but with extra steps (Rick n Morty reference)

The contractor game has been played in Silicon Valley since basically there's been a valley.

I mean some of the orgs could be like that, but the one near me I looked up (Durham, not affiliated to be clear), is more like an entry level gig to work on various projects (so you work for non-profit, but the orgs they work for may be public or private sector).

They mostly built phone apps oriented to public good projects. (So would just be using Claude Code to build the app itself, they wouldn't be calling Anthropic APIs behind the scenes, at least for those projects.)

Think $85k for an entry level gig subsidized by Anthropic. What is so bad about that?

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