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.

This is peak malicious compliance and I love it

https://sightlessscribbles.com/posts/the-paperwork-flood/

Edit : the blog author is on the fediverse if you want to follow him here, and he maintains a follow page on his site with many options!

Q: Why so many unfinished projects?

I care about each line of code i write, what it does, how and why it exists, so I can actually maintain it.

I’d rather have an incomplete codebase I can revisit and trust, than ship something generated overnight without context or ownership.

Maintenance requires context, not just code:

- Clear problem definition
- Good architecture
- Solid system design
- Long-term ownership
- Discipline in testing and refactoring

That’s engineering.

#AI #LLM #OpenSource

Don’t believe for a second that internet age verification has anything to do with protecting kids when a lot of people involved in pushing internet age verification were associates of Jeffrey Epstein.

It’s all about control and surveillance of adults, by forcing everyone to deanonymize. They’re creating an Orwellian state right in front of our eyes.

Kagi Translate can be used to generate McKinsey consultant speak:

https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=McKinsey+consultant