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The Claude Code Leak

https://build.ms/2026/4/1/the-claude-code-leak/

The Claude Code Leak

What the accidental Claude Code source code leak tells us about the real value of code, product market fit, and why integration is what actually makes software great.

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anematode 5d ago

> But then the clean room implementations started showing up. People had taken Anthropic’s source code and rewritten Claude Code from scratch in other languages like Python and Rust.

Seems like the phrase "clean room" is the new "nonplussed"... how does this make any sense?

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aeternum

The most fitting method would be to be to train an LLM on the Claude Code source-code (among other data).

Then use Anthropic's own argument that LLM output is original work and thus not subject to copyright.