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by kylequest 139 days ago
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 :-)
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lifthrasiir 139 days ago
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.
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arianvanp 139 days ago
Claude code is very good at reverse engineering. I reverse engineer Apple products in my MacBook all the time to debug issues
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kylequest 139 days ago
Also some WASM there too... though WASM is mostly limited to Tree Sitter for language parsing. Not touching those in phase 1 :-)
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embedding-shape 139 days ago
> 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.

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