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htrp 50 minutes ago [-]
> 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.
mettamage 37 minutes ago [-]
That’s how it sounds
motbus3 30 minutes ago [-]
Why everything they do sounds shady?
collabs 6 minutes ago [-]
Probably because it is shady?
fragmede 11 minutes ago [-]
The contractor game has been played in Silicon Valley since basically there's been a valley.
827a 37 minutes ago [-]
This seems like one way to saddle nonprofits with functional, but potentially very expensive systems, set up by someone who helps them for a year then disappears and leaves them with no expertise to do long-term cost control or functionality improvements.
noemit 4 minutes ago [-]
They've already done this through the 6m Anthropic API "unlimited plan" grants. Claude-only is getting embedded.
26 minutes ago [-]
drcongo 25 minutes ago [-]
Having had to fix the messes of several green-washing consultants from PWC, JP Morgan Chase etc. I can confirm that this is absolutely guaranteed.
himata4113 1 hours ago [-]
I had to read this twice to understand what they're actually proposing here. The entire premise behind AI is that it can amplify (and in some cases) replace human workers. The blog seems completely backwards to what they're advertising to the enterprise in sales.
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After more reading I find this really funny: "Enforcement and regulatory authority with teeth. The government should be able to block or deter the deployment of models that pose a significant risk of catastrophic harm. We must also avoid overly broad or heavy-handed regulatory power. Our framework proposes both a mechanism for blocking dangerous deployments, and concrete safeguards that would prevent that power from being misused. Policymakers could begin with a lighter-touch approach, then adapt this as model capabilities advance and the evaluation ecosystem matures." (They link to https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential in this blog post)
lkbm 1 hours ago [-]
> The entire premise behind AI is that it can amplify (and in some cases) replace human workers. This seems completely backwards to what they're advertising to the enterprise in sales.
idgi. I'm pretty sure this is also exactly what they've been telling enterprise. This has been the line I've been hearing consistently from them (and everyone else).
roxolotl 37 minutes ago [-]
This is what always confuses me about the “keep up or get left behind” crowd. Either these tools are gods in boxes and we’re all going to be replaced or they are actually something that you can gain expertise around. If you can gain expertise around them then sure there’s value in keeping up. But those shouting we’ve all gotta keep up are mostly the same claiming they are building god boxes. It genuinely has to be one or the other. Something isn’t a god box if you have to learn how to best use it.
clhodapp 36 minutes ago [-]
I believe this is an attempt to try out a possible answer to the problem of "If AI makes it non-viable for individual companies to pay junior devs, there will be no junior devs". The posited theory: Maybe the AI companies pay them off what is effectively a tax on the industry as a whole (that they can extract because every company has no choice but to pay their fees). It's pretty dystopian so I hope this isn't the future, but... maybe worth trying as an experiment?
himata4113 4 minutes ago [-]
I think I summarized it best: AI companies are taking money out of the developer salary pool and giving it to themselves. I personally don't mind since I don't have to work at a company to make money, but I do feel for people who do.
Isaackoz 46 minutes ago [-]
I did not have AI missionaries on my bingo card this year.
kats 3 minutes ago [-]
Sounds like a nice, charitable thing. Of course it benefits the business too, nothing is free, duh. But it's still good. Cheers.
willmeyers 1 hours ago [-]
I guess this is no different than Google Summer of Code, Code for America, etc but with AI. If it actually helps these orgs and doesn't lock them into Anthropic pricing/models then sure, let it rip.
6thbit 55 minutes ago [-]
This is vastly different than SoC. This is an in-person full time year evangelizing Anthropics business.
skywhopper 39 minutes ago [-]
How does this not lock them into Anthropic? You think these folks are going to help set up Copilot?
torben-friis 1 hours ago [-]
This is an avenue I think will eventually be tried as a monetisation path: Models that are fully unavailable to company outsiders, you can just hire consultants that will be thin layers to the model. That way the costs that will come are more palatable since you pay for a hired person rather than a product/service.
htrp 49 minutes ago [-]
They already have a consulting partnership with KPMG as part of a Strategic Alliance
What are the odds these nonprofits were chosen due to proximity to communities with contentious datacenter buildouts?
peterdemin 1 hours ago [-]
Well played, Anthropic.
- Nvidia gives AI labs money to run their models.
- AI labs give money to AI engineers to use the models.
- Companies are getting hooked on AI products.
- AI engineers are getting hooked on AI products.
- Regular Software Engineers are getting devalued/replaced by low-skill AI engineers.
- Their employers get more money to spend on AI.
6thbit 57 minutes ago [-]
This lands with religious undertones for me, as it sounds like a missionary deployment program, albeit with a paid salary.
egonschiele 22 minutes ago [-]
Neat throwback to Google Summer of Code, when tech felt so much simpler (at least to me). Anyone know anything about CodePath, Social Finance, or the nonprofits listed?
30 minutes ago [-]
swader999 53 minutes ago [-]
They should name their next model Algernon.
torginus 1 hours ago [-]
Not sure how necessary is this.
From what I've gathered,, one thing the higher education system is good at is using GenAI to automate personal labor :)
deadbabe 1 hours ago [-]
Claude Corps, Forward Deployed Engineers, Strategic Token Reserves… what’s with all these military inspired naming conventions in AI? We’re just typing softly on keyboards…
dewey 1 hours ago [-]
Time to deploy to the staging environment after discussing it in the war room.
mvdtnz 30 minutes ago [-]
"Staging" is not and has never been a military analogy. All kinds of workers have staging areas. Brick layers stage their work before laying. Builders stage materials. Staging is an area where you place your work before you begin deploying it.
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brentm 31 minutes ago [-]
Reminds me more of Peace Corps.
wongarsu 2 minutes ago [-]
Which itself is named after a military term, and has been described in the terms of a military campaign, just for peace. Wikipedia begins the history of the Peace Corps with an article titled "A Proposal for a Total Peace Offensive". Followed later by 'In 1952 Senator Brien McMahon (D-Connecticut) proposed an "army" of young Americans to act as "missionaries of democracy"'
airstrike 59 minutes ago [-]
It goes hard in today's environment ig
dude250711 43 minutes ago [-]
A trained AI operator will neutralise threats to your production.
yieldcrv 47 minutes ago [-]
Palantir had first mover advantage on FDE and so its the term that stuck
rainprincess 1 hours ago [-]
lmfao
unictek 54 minutes ago [-]
Is that a Fable ?
peterspath 4 minutes ago [-]
No it’s a myth
49 minutes ago [-]
the_gipsy 38 minutes ago [-]
Are the Techbros drunk with power again?
Yeah.
yieldcrv 47 minutes ago [-]
so cheap FDE's for the non profit sector
alright
shimman 1 hours ago [-]
Good lord, what the fuck is wrong with these companies if they think this is a good thing? They are completely divorced from public opinion that rightfully hates them.
bpavuk 1 hours ago [-]
this is obviously a way to try and get someone hooked, younger people and nonprofits alike. much like their Claude for Open-Source program, which gives a one-time 6-month Claude Max credit for maintainers of some super-popular open-source projects.
for reference, I've been using JetBrains All Products Pack and spent substantial amount in IDEs available under free non-commercial license, such as Rider and RustRover. if RustRover made things worse and I fell back to rustacean.vim, Rider and its ReSharper backend is fucking black magic and I swear I will outright refuse an employer who bans Rider and Visual Studio ReSharper extensions.
another theory: Adobe didn't hunt down pirates much because piracy bred new professionals whose companies would just have to pay for Creative Cloud.
thewebguyd 46 minutes ago [-]
> Adobe didn't hunt down pirates much because piracy bred new professionals whose companies would just have to pay for Creative Cloud.
Wouldn't surprise me. Microsoft had the same attitude for pirating Windows. Bill Gates said
> Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade
Adobe figured out how to collect once they went subscription only.
So your job is to be an FDE to sell Claude into non-profits.... but without ever actually working for Anthropic.
-- edit --
After more reading I find this really funny: "Enforcement and regulatory authority with teeth. The government should be able to block or deter the deployment of models that pose a significant risk of catastrophic harm. We must also avoid overly broad or heavy-handed regulatory power. Our framework proposes both a mechanism for blocking dangerous deployments, and concrete safeguards that would prevent that power from being misused. Policymakers could begin with a lighter-touch approach, then adapt this as model capabilities advance and the evaluation ecosystem matures." (They link to https://www.anthropic.com/policy-on-the-ai-exponential in this blog post)
idgi. I'm pretty sure this is also exactly what they've been telling enterprise. This has been the line I've been hearing consistently from them (and everyone else).
https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-kpmg
From what I've gathered,, one thing the higher education system is good at is using GenAI to automate personal labor :)
Yeah.
alright
for reference, I've been using JetBrains All Products Pack and spent substantial amount in IDEs available under free non-commercial license, such as Rider and RustRover. if RustRover made things worse and I fell back to rustacean.vim, Rider and its ReSharper backend is fucking black magic and I swear I will outright refuse an employer who bans Rider and Visual Studio ReSharper extensions.
another theory: Adobe didn't hunt down pirates much because piracy bred new professionals whose companies would just have to pay for Creative Cloud.
Wouldn't surprise me. Microsoft had the same attitude for pirating Windows. Bill Gates said
> Although about 3 million computers get sold every year in China, people don’t pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they’re going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They’ll get sort of addicted, and then we’ll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade
Adobe figured out how to collect once they went subscription only.
Anthropic can take their system cards and shove them up their ass in my opinion.