A Claude Pro or ChatGPT Plus subscription is what, $20 per month? heavier tiers maybe $100-200. anyone genuinely building something has trivial ways to cover this.

the proposal adds a middleman, a fee, "extra fees for transfers/exchanges," and monthly administration to distribute amounts individual devs could self-fund.

And I believe this "lets sponsor your AI" initiative is around for a while, what is the output we get so far?

As I mentioned in the linked post I will also take a fee for the workload to organize and overview this proposal.

Is that fee disclosed somewhere?

I'll also be offering non-devs smaller subscriptions as starters, but you'll need to show you have had some experience and know how to use AI coding effectively through your github/gitlab even if you can't code.

what is the purpose of this, tho? even weaker odds of shipping maintainable software, and AI-generated code from people who can't review it is exactly the code most likely to become an abandoned security liability that the ecosystem then has to deal with.