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Inside: It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked; and more!

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Re: @pluralistic It's extremely good that Claude's source-code leaked

As Anthropic has publicly boasted that "Claude Code is 100% written by Claude Code" and the Supreme Court just said that AI works are not copyrightable, how is it possible that Anthropic has standing to issue a DMCA 512 takedown?
Shouldn't these notices simply be ignored (we're sorry you published your trade secret).

https://fortune.com/2026/01/29/100-percent-of-code-at-anthropic-and-openai-is-now-ai-written-boris-cherny-roon/

Top engineers at Anthropic, OpenAI say AI now writes 100% of their code—with big implications for the future of software development jobs

AI coding tools are getting more sophisticated. But if coders stop coding, what happens to software development jobs?

Fortune