Security researcher Chaofan Shou tweeted yesterday morning that the source code for Anthropic’s Claude Code agent had leaked: [Twitter, archive] Claude code source code has been leaked via a map fi…
  • nightsky@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I’ve always wondered why software licenses tend to have a part written in ALL CAPS… now I finally understand, it’s for the AI bots.

  • Architeuthis@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    “Throw insane amounts of compute at some developer fan fiction and hope for the best.” is such a good description of vibe coding.

  • lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    By far the dumbest “feature” in the codebase is this thing called “Buddy” (described in a few places such as here). Honestly, I don’t really know what it’s for or what the point is.

    BUDDY - A Tamagotchi Inside Your Terminal

    I am not making this up.

    Claude Code has a full Tamagotchi-style companion pet system called “Buddy.” A deterministic gacha system with species rarity, shiny variants, procedurally generated stats, and a soul description written by Claude on first hatch like OpenClaw.

    …

    On top of that, there’s a 1% shiny chance completely independent of rarity. So a Shiny Legendary Nebulynx has a 0.01% chance of being rolled. Dang.

    Great, so they were planning on a gacha system where you can get an ASCII virtual pet that, uhh, occasionally makes comments? Truly a serious feature for a serious tool for the serious discipline of software engineering. Imagine if IntelliJ decided to pull this bullshit.

    But also, Claude Code is leaning hard into gambling addiction — the “Hooked” model. You reward the user with an intermittent, variable reward. This keeps them coming back in the hope of the big win. And it turns them into gambling addicts.

    The Onion could not have come up with a better way to illustrate this very point.

    • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Even before this, I felt strongly that there was a big element of gambling in coding agents.

      “Please fix this bug!”

      <pulls lever>

      “Big bucks, no wammies!”

    • antifuchs@awful.systemsEnglish
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      2 days ago

      You just gotta appreciate that the most deterministic part of the code base is the predatory lootbox system.

    • Orygin@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 days ago

      The terms of use of anthropic (in Europe) explicitly call out non commercial use only on their pro plan.
      So by their own admissions, it’s not a serious tool for the serious discipline of software engineering. It’s reserved for vibe coding only

  • lurker@awful.systemsEnglish
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    2 days ago

    So there’s a chance that Anthropic won’t be able to go after anyone with the Claude codebase because copyright laws?

    • Evinceo@awful.systemsEnglish
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      16 hours ago

      I’d love to see it tested in court but I’m not gonna be the test case. GitHub won’t touch it because the ‘AI output is worthless’ angle is bad news for MS.