The open-source maintainer sits at the center of the modern software ecosystem, with the libraries they build often deep within production systems. That influence has made them attractive to AI companies trying to win developers over to their coding tools.
OpenAI announced on Friday that it was accepting applications to join its own maintainer program, following Anthropic’s launch last week. (And there’s nothing in the fine print for either company that says you can’t be part of both programs.)
OpenAI states that members of its Codex…
