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Can't really fault them when this exists:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

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What even is this repo? Its very deceptive

Issue tracker for submitting bug reports that no one ever reads or responds to.

Now that's not fair, I'm sure they have Claude go through and ignore the reports.

Unironically 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.

By 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 :-)

Not only this would violate the ToS, but also a newer native version of Claude Code precompiles most JS source files into the JavaScriptCore's internal bytecode format, so reverse engineering would soon become much more annoying if not harder.

Also some WASM there too... though WASM is mostly limited to Tree Sitter for language parsing. Not touching those in phase 1 :-)

Claude code is very good at reverse engineering. I reverse engineer Apple products in my MacBook all the time to debug issues

> Not only this would violate the ToS

What specific parts of the ToS does "sharing different code snippets" violate? Not that I don't believe you, just curious about the specifics as it seems like you've already dug through it.

Using GitHub as an issue tracker for proprietary software should be prohibited. Not that it would, these days.

Codeberg at least has some integrity around such things.

That must be the worst repo I have ever seen.

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