Nicholas Zakas

Like there was a lot in 2025 of people being like, oh, look at this, like terms of service, they've now included that your data can be used to train AIs.

And I feel like...

If Anthropic were to start a registry, that would be like day one, people being like, wait a second, am I just feeding Anthropic like my copyrighted material so it can continue to train Claude?

I think that would be a major barrier to that.

Yeah, well, I think it would be interesting if they started having Claude say, like, no, you've got to use the Anthropic Official Registry.

But I could also imagine similar upset developers.

Yeah.

And also just from an operational standpoint, I don't know that Anthropic has the operational experience to be able to keep a high volume registry up and running at this point.

I mean, that's something that, I mean, there were really smart people.

Explain that.

What does it take to do that?

I would be lying if I said I knew exactly.

But, well, no, because I know, like, I knew a bunch of people who started NPM Inc.

We worked together at Yahoo.

Really, really smart people coming from Yahoo that had really, really good operational experience.

systems and being able to pull people from that ecosystem in to help build up NPM.

I mean, people forget now, but the NPM registry used to go down a lot in the early days.

And even after they got their funding, it took a while before it reached stability.

And there's a lot of

Again, I'm not going to lie and say I know how to keep a registry online myself because I've always been more of a front end developer than a back end developer.