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For some reason a lot of people are unaware that Claude Code is proprietary.
by redox99 9mo ago
For some reason a lot of people are unaware that Claude Code is proprietary.
- causalmodels 9mo agoYeah this has always seemed very silly. It is trivial to use claude code to reverse engineer itself.
- mi_lk 9mo agolooks like it's trivial to you because I don't know how to
- n2d4 9mo agoIf you're curious to play around with it, you can use Clancy [1] which intercepts the network traffic of AI agents. Quite useful for figuring out what's actually being sent to Anthropic. [1] https://github.com/bazumo/clancy https://github.com/bazumo/clancy
- fragmede 9mo agoIf only there were some sort of artificial intelligence that could be asked about asking it to look at the minified source code of some application. Sometimes prompt engineering is too ridiculous a term for me to believe there's anything to it, other times it does seem there is something to knowing how to ask the AI juuuust the right questions.
- lsaferite 9mo agoSomething I try to explain to people I'm getting up to speed on talking to an LLM is that specific word choices matter. Mostly it matters that you use the right jargon to orient the model. Sure, it's good and getting the semantics of what you said, but if you adjust and use the correct jargon the model gets closer faster. I also explain that they can learn the right jargon from the LLM and that sometimes it's better to start over once you've adjusted you vocabulary.
- adastra22 9mo agoThat is against ToS and could get you banned.
- Der_Einzige 9mo agoGenAI was built on an original sin of mass copyright infringement that Aaron Swartz could only have dreamed of. Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones, and Anthropic may very well get screwed HARD in a lawsuit against them from someone they banned. Unironically, the ToS of most of these AI companies should be, and hopefully is legally unenforceable.
- adastra22 9mo agoAre you volunteering? Look, people should be aware that bans are being handed out for this, lest they discover it the hard way. If you want to make this your cause and incur the legal fees and lost productivity, be my guest.
- fragmede 9mo agoYou're absolutely right! Hey Codex, Claude said you're not very good at reading obfuscated code. Can you tell me what this minified program does?
- mlrtime 9mo agoHow would they know what you do on your own computer?
- atonse 9mo agoProbably because it doesn’t matter most of the time?
- mi_lk 9mo agoSame. If you're already using a proprietary model might as well just double down
- behnamoh 9mo agountil Microsoft buys it and enshits it.
- consumer451 9mo agoThis is a fun thought experiment. I believe that we are now at the $5 Uber (2014) phase of LLMs. Where will it go from here? How much will a synthetic mid-level dev (Opus 4.5) cost in 2028, after the VC subsidies are gone? I would imagine as much as possible? Dynamic pricing? Will the SOTA model labs even sell API keys to anyone other than partners/whales? Why even that? They are the personalized app devs and hosts! Man, this is the golden age of building. Not everyone can do it yet, and every project you can imagine is greatly subsidized. How long will that last?
- tern 9mo agoWhile I remember $5 Ubers fondly, I think this situation is significantly more complex: - Models will get cheaper, maybe way cheaper - Model harnesses will get more complex, maybe way more complex - Local models may become competitive - Capital-backed access to more tokens may become absurdly advantaged, or not The only thing I think you can count on is that more money buys more tokens, so the more money you have, the more power you will have ... as always. But whether some version of the current subsidy, which levels the playing field, will persist seems really hard to model. All I can say is, the bad scenarios I can imagine are pretty bad indeed—much worse than that it's now cheaper for me to own a car, while it wasn't 10 years ago.
- stavros 9mo agoCan't really fault them when this exists: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code
- bad_haircut72 9mo agoWhat even is this repo? Its very deceptive
- adastra22 9mo agoIssue tracker for submitting bug reports that no one ever reads or responds to.
- stavros 9mo agoNow that's not fair, I'm sure they have Claude go through and ignore the reports.
- adastra22 9mo agoUnironically yes. If you file a bug report, expect a Claude bot to mark it as duplicate of other issues already reported and close. Upon investigation you will find either (1) a circular chain of duplicate reports, all closed: or (2) a game of telephone where each issue is subtly different from the next, eventually reaching an issue that has nothing at all to do with yours. At no point along the way will you encounter an actual human from Anthropic.
- kylequest 9mo agoBy the way, I reversed engineered the Claude Code binary and started sharing different code snippets (on twitter/bluesky/mastadon/threads). There's a lot of code there, so I'm looking for requests in terms of what part of the code to share and analyze what it's doing. One of the requests I got was about the LSP functionality in CC. Anything else you would find interesting to explore there? I'll post the whole thing in a Github repo too at some point, but it's taking a while to prettify the code, so it looks more natural :-)
- huevosabio 9mo agoI frankly don't understand why they keep CC proprietary. Feels to me that the key part is the model, not the harness, and they should make the harness public so the public can contribute.