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by weird-eye-issue 82 days ago
It doesn't matter that much. Trust me you could just have an LLM reverse engineer the obfuscated code.
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The point is that a "secure coding platform" leaked something they were trying to keep under wraps, whether the contents of the leak matter or not.

Also, as many others have pointed out, there is roadmap info in here that wouldn't be available in the production build.

> The point is that a "secure coding platform" leaked something they were trying to keep under wraps, whether the contents of the leak matter or not

Sure, but that's completely different from what they were responding to to, which was someone insinuating the Claude Code CLI has secret sauce that makes it better than the competition.

Fair, I was just seeing so much of this and randomly responded to yours.
No reasonable person actually thinks that Claude Code cannot make mistakes. So if your point is that this is going to change anybody's opinion about it then I think that's pretty silly.

Also who really cares about the roadmap? Any feature they release can be easily copied quickly. The only moat they have at the moment is in giving access to their models via a subscription.

> No reasonable person actually thinks that Claude Code cannot make mistakes.

This was insanely rookie mistake that could have been caught if anyone was paying attention as opposed to "vibing."

As a Claude Code user why should I care?
yeah it actually works to use claude to reverse engineer itself; I've used that to workaround some problems. E.g. that's how I discovered that I had to put two slashes for absolute paths in sandbox config. The thing is, the claude team is so quick that soon enough they add more and more features and fix more and more bugs that your workarounds become obsolete
> they add more and more features and fix more and more bugs

My experience has been that they add far more bugs in every release than they fix