Anthony
I posted about the Claude Code leak on LinkedIn and almost immediately someone attacked me about my criticism. They tried the "take a look at COBOL and get back to me" angle.

Buddy. I've written COBOL. I spent several years working almost daily with a 3-million-line monstrosity of a COBOL program. I was working on another app that interfaced with it, but in that work I occasionally had to read the code and in a few cases modify it. Granted I haven't spent as much time looking at the leaked Claude Code source code (and won't lol), but nevertheless I confidently declare that Claude Code is worse. "Spaghetti code" doesn't come close to describing this thing.

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The person commented again and I ended up blocking them. It is really astonishing how many people become negative, personal, and emotional in response to straightforward and uncontroversial statements about AI. Nobody who's written software can look at this leaked Claude Code source code and conclude "Nope, that's not spaghetti code. That's clean and well-structured code with understandable abstractions". How does pointing out the low quality of this code and implications that has for Anthropic merit personal attacks, denials, and dissembling?

Shades of COVID denial, anger about any suggestion that this disease is dangerous and dissembling about wearing a protective mask.