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Apr 1, 2026 11:00 AM
Claude code and 512000 Becoming Public
The Moment Every Engineer Knows
You publish a package.
Everything seems fine.
Then someone on the internet discovers something you absolutely did not intend to ship.
And suddenly half a million lines of your internal code are circulating on GitHub.
That’s essentially what just happened with Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line developer tool.
What Actually Happened
Anthropic released version 2.1.88 of the claude-code npm package.
Inside the package there was a s
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You publish a package.
Everything seems fine.
Then someone on the internet discovers something you absolutely did not intend to ship.
And suddenly half a million lines of your internal code are circulating on GitHub.
That’s essentially what just happened with Claude Code, Anthropic’s command-line developer tool.
What Actually Happened
Anthropic released version 2.1.88 of the claude-code npm package.
Inside the package there was a s