I tried to make Claude make me money on open-source bounties

FergusArgyll

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficient-market_hypothesis

david_shi

Bounties are the most overfished pond when trying to making money with AI because the task to earnings step is atomic. AI UGC with affiliate sales and other kinds of monetized AI content creation requires niche selection, monitoring, and some upfront risk, but has much better ROI on effort.

adastra22

The lack of self awareness is shocking. This is a tragedy of the commons and they don’t even realize it. The whole thing was written by AI, so maybe not that surprising.

krazydad

Meanwhile, several companies are no longer offering bounties. It's becoming tedious to sift through all the AI-generated submissions, many of which are false positives.

neom

"Pick one repo and become a contributor first", add the operative "real" after a, and this should probably be the one and only point under "What I'd do differently"

loloquwowndueo

AI contributions to projects that aren’t your own are pointless. We all have access to the same models so you’re not doing anyone any favors by adding layers of noise. If the project maintainers want to tackle an issue that matters to you, they are in a far better position to craft a suitable prompt and review the changes than a rando over the internet with a Claude account.

stalfosknight

Why are you so shameless?

pdimitar

I'd have sympathy if: - This was not mostly (if not fully) an AI-generated text; - Had a clear problem statement. Why would you burn money on $17 - $50 bounties? In the hopes that you'd collect $30 at $5.68 spend? You can literally offer your services to carry boxes for a higher hourly rate. Low-effort post.

jazzyjackson

I actually wouldn’t mind putting prices on tasks and letting other people spend tokens trying to meet the criteria, bounty goes to the first bidder that actually solves the problem.