ANTHROPIC JUST ADMITTED THE ENTIRE CLAUDE CODE LEAK WAS FAKE
IT WAS AN APRIL FOOLS PRANK
> the "leaked" source code was fabricated
> the Mythos model benchmarks were made up
> the 3,000 internal documents were planted on purpose
anthropic deliberately seeded fake assets in a staging environment they intentionally left unsecured.
the npm source map pointed to a completely fabricated codebase 44 fictional feature flags. invented codenames. just enough sloppy details to make it irresistible to post about
the tamagotchi pet system. the undercover mode. the engineer named ollie. all fake.
they called the project "Capybara" internally
because capybaras sit calmly while everything around them escalates
they even apologized to cybersecurity researchers at Cambridge and LayerX who spent their entire weekend analyzing documents written on a Thursday afternoon
anthropic just pulled off the greatest april fools in tech history.
well played
Anthropic leaked 512,000 lines of Claude Code source code yesterday.
What happened in the next 12 hours is absolutely wild.
4 AM. Anthropic pushes an update to npm. Inside the package: their entire codebase. A 60 MB debugging file accidentally bundled in.
23 minutes later, researcher Chaofan Shou spots it. Downloads the zip.
Posts it on X. Within 6 hours: 3 million views.
By the time Anthropic’s team woke up, the code was forked 41,000+ times across GitHub. Anthropic started firing DMCA takedowns. Too late.
A Korean developer named Sigrid Jin woke up to his phone exploding. He’s Claude Code’s biggest power user.
WSJ reported he burned through 25 billion tokens last year.
He read the leaked code.
Rewrote the entire thing in Python in 8 hours. His repo hit 30,000 stars faster than any GitHub project in history.
Then he rewrote it again in Rust. That version now has 49,000 stars.
Someone mirrored it to a decentralized platform with one message: “will never be taken down.” The code is permanent. Anthropic cannot get it back.
Here’s the part I can’t stop thinking about: Anthropic built something called “Undercover Mode.” Its only job: prevent Claude from accidentally leaking internal secrets.
They shipped an entire anti-leak system in their own product. Then leaked their own source code in a .map file. Irony is beautiful
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AGI at home
Running DeepSeek R1 across my 7 M4 Pro Mac Minis and 1 M4 Max MacBook Pro.
Total unified memory = 496GB.
Uses @exolabs distributed inference with 4-bit quantization.
Next goal is fp8 (requires >700GB)