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Oops Accidental Push Into Production

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Oops Accidental Push Into Production

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Someone at Anthropic just had a career-defining Monday morning. Claude's entire source code got yeeted into their npm registry as a map file, and now the whole internet can browse through their AI's guts like it's a yard sale. The file listing reads like a greatest hits album: "buddy", "bridge", "upstreambeezy", "tanks" - truly inspiring variable names from a cutting-edge AI company. Nothing says "enterprise-grade security" quite like accidentally publishing your proprietary codebase to a public package registry. Somewhere, a senior dev is updating their LinkedIn profile while the security team schedules an all-hands meeting titled "Let's Talk About .gitignore Files."

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