Anthropic accidentally shipped a 59.8 MB source map in its npm package, exposing 512,000 lines of Claude Code's TypeScript source. The community responded with clean-room rewrites, architectural deep dives, and the fastest repo to 50K stars in GitHub history.
  • hodgepodgin@lemmy.zip
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    18 hours ago

    The clean-room approach created a novel legal puzzle. Gergely Orosz (The Pragmatic Engineer) observed that Anthropic faces a dilemma: a Python rewrite constitutes a new creative work potentially outside DMCA reach. If Anthropic claims the AI-generated transformative rewrite infringes copyright, it could undermine their own defense in training-data copyright cases - the same argument that AI-generated outputs from copyrighted inputs constitute fair use.

    The only moral justification for an AI rewrite. Love it.

    • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      My guess they are not even gonna challenge the “clean room” rewrite legally: the damage is done and it’s not really gonna be mitigated if they manage to take down the rewrite.