When I read the announcement, I thought they were donating the use of CodeGuru to projects (which I presumed would be limited to open source ones) to (1) improve the code hygiene of the world (2) gather more data for their machine learning models (3) publicity for CodeGuru
But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point CodeGuru at the repos, then I have to pay for running CodeGuru on any potential PRs, but then also separately create a BugSnag account seemingly just for this stunt. And in the end I ... get Internet points on my BugSnag account?
I fail to see how anyone but AWS benefits from this, unless a participant happens to be one of the top competitors who accumulated enough Internet points to get a free trip to re:Invent
But as best I can tell, this is the worst of all worlds: I have to already have an AWS account to both create the competition and also to point CodeGuru at the repos, then I have to pay for running CodeGuru on any potential PRs, but then also separately create a BugSnag account seemingly just for this stunt. And in the end I ... get Internet points on my BugSnag account?
I fail to see how anyone but AWS benefits from this, unless a participant happens to be one of the top competitors who accumulated enough Internet points to get a free trip to re:Invent