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Be honest: When was the last time you cleaned up obsolete code from your repos?

A startup is proposing a marketplace where developers can license their obsolete code to AI labs like Anthropic and OpenAI for passive income, citing that GitHub and other repos contain over 10% obsolete code that costs companies annually. The idea was discussed in a Hacker News post by a user who spoke with an investor in the startup, with more details available at Pangea.ai's code licensing page.

read1 min views1 publishedAug 14, 2026

| |||||||||||| 2 points by | I just had a chat with a buddy who invested in a startup buying up obsolete code. The use case is there, Github and other repos contain 10+% of obsolete code which no one ever deletes and it costs a bunch per year for just having it there. What if you could just licence the code to Anthropic, OpenAI or any other AI lab and make passive income every time its sold. Does that as a use case make sense for you? More info about the business can be found here:_ https://pangea.ai/code-licensing/companies?id=1135 | ||||||||||| |

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