You can’t annihilate a project by hiring its devs away. The project is still out there and the code is still open source.

This idea that devs owe their continued free service to an open source project they released in the past is a crazy one.

I don't think that this is what the parent says. The parent doesn't complain about the devs moving to Anthropic (presumably to work on something they find exciting and get a good salary for it).

The parent complains about Anthropic hiring devs working on interesting projects, just because they have enough money for that.

> You can’t annihilate a project by hiring its devs away.

I also disagree with that: the codebase is still out there, but what is "a project"? Many (most?) open source projects stop evolving when their devs go away.