My first encounter with this was when Anthropic offered like 6 months of Claude Max 20x to open source developers with "5,000+ GitHub stars". https://claude.c

My first encounter with this was when Anthropic offered like 6 months of Claude Max 20x to open source developers with "5,000+ GitHub stars". https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss > Who should apply: > You’re a primary maintainer or core team member of a public repo with 5,000+ GitHub stars I can't blame people for maximizing star counts when benefits like these are tied to them. This is a $200 a month subscription, and it did tempt me a bit... Can't imagine what people would do if some venture capitalist dangled millions in front of them. I suppose they'd do pretty much anything. It's weird that people are using stars as a signal though. Anyone can star a repository, it's essentially a public bookmark. I think the real popularity signal is the number of people participating in the project.