A recent leak of Anthropic's Claude Code source revealed significant issues with the codebase, including extremely long functions and the use of basic regex for sentiment analysis, which critics likened to a trucking company using horses. The leak occurred due to a packaging error, not a malicious attack, and exposed over 512,000 lines of code. This incident highlighted concerns about Anthropic's engineering culture, particularly after CEO Dario Amodei had repeatedly claimed that AI was writing an increasingly high percentage of their code, reaching 100% in some instances. AI
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