Anthropic Formalizes Developer Credits Program, the Evangelist Plan
charles_irl · x · 2026-11-11
Anthropic's Charles Irrthum reveals that when the company was smaller, it would hand out API credits to random people building cool stuff on Twitter—how he first got involved. That practice will continue, but there is now a formal program, the Evangelist Plan, to support community builders systematically.
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