Pick Your Chip: Portable Open Claude, Shattered Egos, and Gifts from the Circle of Fire
There is a funny dynamic that happens when you work in AI and SecOps, people who only read the tech headlines often try to bring you the "news." Recently, a nice friend of mine, Madhupriya (Names changed for anonymity) excitedly tried to drop some insider knowledge on me about the Anthropic "Claude Code" leak. For those who missed it, Anthropic accidentally shipped the source map for their terminal-based AI coding assistant at some point in the near past. It was the global tech gossip for the last couple of weeks. She gave me a grand lecture on how this leak was "world-changing" and asked if I, the resident techie, have it in me help set it up on her shiny new Ubuntu PC. Here is a rule of thumb: just because I’m silent doesn't mean I’m dumb, and, just because I don't regurgitate the morning's tech news wherever I appear at doesn't even closely mean I missed the drop. I have learnt somewhere that unsheathing your blade to dra...