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Re:FFmpeg 9.0 by world2vec on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @06:42AM (#49166708)
In FFmpeg's twitter page it says that several of their developers got six free months of Claude Max 20x plan through Anthropic's Claude for Open Source Program, and that it was used, so far, to help find missing backports for this 9.0 release.
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Re:FFmpeg 9.0 by shevy-java on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:11AM (#49166935)
Sounds like advertisement though.
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Re:FFmpeg 9.0 by cjmcqueen on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:30AM (#49167116)
That's how sponsorship works, it's an exchange of goods or funds for visibility of an audience. Nothing wrong with that
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Re:FFmpeg 9.0 by vachina on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:32AM (#49167141)
Sounds like getting them hooked on LLM so they come back for more.
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Re:FFmpeg 9.0 by selcuka on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @07:52AM (#49167352)
No wonder both drug dealers and software developers call their customers "users".
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Re:FFmpeg 9.0 by dylan604 on Tuesday August 04, 2026 @11:50AM (#49170635)
only users lose tokens?

only losers use tokens?

both play just similarly to the original phrases

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