Anthropic just learned an expensive lesson about the difference between precision strikes and carpet bombing.
In 2026, the AI company discovered that someone had leaked the source code for Claude Code, their developer tool. Their response? Issue a copyright takedown notice to GitHub that accidentally nuked thousands of repositories that had nothing to do with the leak. Oops.
The company has since admitted the mistake and scaled back the takedowns, but the damage to their reputation—and to countless developers who woke up to find their projects suddenly vanished—was already done.
What Actually Happened
Someone got their hands on Claude Code’s source code and posted it to GitHub. This is every tech company’s nightmare scenario. Your proprietary code, the stuff you’ve spent millions developing, suddenly available for anyone to copy, study, or repurpose.
Anthropic did what
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