> Why on earth would you be hunting $20 a month subscriptions from random assed people? Peanuts.

For the same reason Microsoft never has and never will chase people for pirating home Windows or Office licenses

When they hit the workforce, or even better, start a company guess which OS and office suite they'll use? Hint: It's not Linux and Openoffice.

Same with Claude's $20 package. It lets devs use it at home and then compare it to the Copilot shit their company is pushing on them. Maybe they either grumble enough to get a Claude license or they're in a position to make the call.

Cheap advertising pretty much.

Worked for me too :) I've paid my own Claude license for over a year at home, grumbled at work and we got a Claude pilot going now - and everyone who's tried it so far isn't going back to Copilot + Sonnet 4.5/GPT5.