I'm pretty sure they scrubbed the commit history to remove claude. Github caches the top contributors in the main page so even if you rewrite the history they remain. And in this repo you're right that if you go to the history claude's contribution shouldn't get it so high, so it follows that they scrubbed it.
Nah, it's there in the history, but they're co-authors so I think they may be showing up differently/not at all. If you just hunt the history you can find all of the co-authored entries. I think what I saw was 3-5 distinct users with commits which had a claude co-author on a subset of their commits.
I am happy to make my comment much more accesible.
Yeah, that's a great analysis you (@devin) put together.
This is a company (OpenAI) aiming for a trillion dollar public valuation, mostly built on brand and hype.
This tweet (the one linked in the submission, also adding it here [1]) has been seen 100k times so far, plus it reached the front page of HN (Hacker News).
One (indefinite pronoun to refer to a generic subject) would think they (OpenAI) would be much more careful with their brand.
If there's anything else you might think needs clarification, let me know and I'll be glad to help!
So you were just mocking the format of my post because it's reminiscent of AI-generated text? What I wrote was perfectly clear and in no way AI-generated.
I have mixed feelings with this. I've just checked out my GitHub repo and just realised that Claude itself inserted as a contributor without giving me a heads up it would do it.
This feels like one of those stories that spreads because it’s too good not to.
People see that Claude is a top contributor in OpenAI related repo and jump to conclusions about what it means
Same with the Ballmer/Mac story. It sort of happened, but not really how people tell it. The Mac was there, but he wasn’t actually using it the way the story implies.
OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor (twitter.com/codebynz)
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Claude code is impressively good. Some of the other models and harnesses get close, but it's a noticeable regression when I hit a limit and move to kilocode with gpt-oss:120b running locally.
I don't think people understand what this repo even is.
Claude's contribution is not significant any way you slice it.
Go look at the other users who are committers. There are giant logfiles. Other committers are +28,000 LOC on 2 commits.
Here's an example commit from another user: https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/commit/985568880b60...