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Sick
@sickdotdev
software engineer and figuring out life
Delhi เข้าร่วม Nisan 2025
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@BlakeOperator exactly, one optimized for reach
the other for experience
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@sickdotdev Anthropic turned every git log into a billboard. OpenAI didn't. One of those teams was thinking about distribution. The other was thinking about the product.
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@sickdotdev I hate it a bit when claude does that. It’s like a youtube ad
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@sickdotdev If you check deeper you’re gonna see em dashes in the commit messages 👀
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@sickdotdev but you know what? that's the entire reason I opt for codex instead of claude for some repos
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@sickdotdev OpenAI wants to be the invisible layer. Anthropic wants to be the visible partner. Totally different GTM philosophies. One builds infrastructure, the other builds brand. Long term, the brand play might win because developers remember who helped them ship.
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@katta_mukunda perfectly put
every commit becomes marketing without feeling like it
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@sickdotdev Underrated observation. The co-author tag is basically free organic marketing baked into every developer's workflow. Every PR, every open source contribution becomes a tiny billboard. Brilliant growth loop that costs Anthropic nothing.
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@SentientMY could be part of it
but the distribution upside is too obvious to ignore
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@sickdotdev anthropic turned git blame into a marketing channel. that's genuinely brilliant product thinking disguised as a commit message.
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@sickdotdev co-author is growth engineering disguised as git metadata
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@MehulPandeyX because devs discover tools where they work
and GitHub is where they work
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@sickdotdev I saw this exact same post 6 hours ago from someone else 🙃
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@sickdotdev It's the smartest growth hack nobody at OpenAI seems to care about. Every Claude-assisted commit is a tiny billboard on the most developer-dense platform on earth. Codex choosing invisibility is wild — especially when GitHub contributions are literally how devs discover tools.
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