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.
  • talkingpumpkin@lemmy.world
    291·
    1 day ago

    Anthropic pulled the npm package within hours and issued a statement: the exposure was “a release packaging issue caused by human error, not a security breach.”

    I’m sure they chose the words “human error” to also imply the error is not to blame on their LLM, which remains an open question after reading the article (and likely will forever, although at the very least it would seem like the LLM did not detect this mistake).

    • disorderly@lemmy.world
      9·
      1 day ago

      Yeah, I had a good laugh at this. Half of the commits I review are coauthored by Claude, a fact that I’m sure Anthropic is thrilled to claim, but this colossal fuck up was obviously the work of a rogue intern or something.