Anthropic's Claude Code's full source code leaked. Claude is seen by many to be the best coding LLM on the market with Anthropic proudly stating that Claude Code itself is mostly written by the LLM.

Now this sounds good as long as nobody can see the code which is quite the trash fire. Detecting "code sentiment" via regular expressions, variable and functions names containing prompt parts trying to influence the bot, a completely intransparent mess of a control flow that makes actual maintenance and debugging functionally impossible and the prompts ... of the prompts. All the begging and pleading to the chatbot not to do this or not to do that or please to do this.

It is fascinating but it is as far away from actual engineering as drunkenly pissing your name in the snow. Dunno what you call the people prompting software at Anthropic but "engineer" is not it.

Now it is fun to look at the currently hyped product striped bare and showing its pathetic quality but that is the future of software if we let those companies continue to undermine every good practice software engineering has tried establishing.

The software we have to use will be bad, insecure, unmaintainable, expensive with nobody having the skills or resources to build something better. As I wrote a few months ago: LLM based software production is equivalent to saying that fast fashion should be the only way to produce clothing. A tragic degeneration of the quality of the artefacts we rely on build for maximum profit on the backs of people in countries from the global majority.

For the past few streams, we've been going pretty high level, especially with the aid of LLMs. Not this time! On Friday at 4pm UTC (https://everytimezone.com/s/2ac07a7b), we're going all the way down to "what bits go where", with honest hand-written #Rust code. Specifically, we're going to write an audio generator that produces WAV files with white, pink, and brown noise. Hopefully I won't blow any speakers (yours or mine), but come find out!

https://youtube.com/live/BKHE7stqhoI?feature=share

One of the most popular JavaScript packages on earth Axios has been compromised

The Axios NPM package has been compromised and the maintainer of the project has been locked out of their account. This will go down in history as one of the most successful software supply chain attacks ever

💥 https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/axios-compromised

#javascript #axios #webdev #npm #js #dev #compression #softwareattribution #web #webdev #successful #attack #plaincryptojs #malware

The fediverse is full of real life superheros.

Let's shed some light on a few:

@aral - Building https://kitten.small-web.org + @gazaverified

@quillmatiq - Building https://brid.gy + @anewsocial

@silverpill - Managing FEPs + @mitra

@julian - Building @nodebb

@jesseplusplus - Building @frequency

@jaz - Building @teamtoot + @iftas

@thisismissem - Building https://fires.fedimod.org

@benpate - Building https://emissary.dev

@koen - Building https://procolix.eu

Show em' some ❤️

Why publish your research data in a proper repository like Zenodo, not a on a fancy institutional website?

I was looking to access the UN Peace Missions Mandate dataset for some analysis. When I checked https://www.peacemissions.info it was gone. Timed out.

I have no idea if it's temporarily down or down forever or what has happened.

It's not accessible elsewhere as far as I can tell, so the analysis is not happening.

#Data #Zenodo #ReproducibleResearch