Anthropic's developers made an extremely basic configuration error, and as a result, the source-code for Claude Code - the company's flagship coding assistant product - has leaked and is being eagerly analyzed by many parties:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47586778

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If Claude scrapped Claude’s source code would he have to take it down?