Anthropic tried to kill 8,100 GitHub repos. Then this happened
> They filed a DMCA. GitHub nuked the entire network within hours. Developers got notices for forks of Anthropic's OWN public repo - one guy's fork had zero leaked code.
> Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code, had to go on X personally: "This was not intentional. Should be better now."
> Meanwhile Sigrid Jin - who used 25 billion Claude Code tokens last year - woke up at 4AM and rewrote the entire thing in Python before sunrise. DMCA can't touch a clean-room rewrite.
> It hit 50K stars in 2 hours. Fastest repo in GitHub history.
> Today claw-code officially launched as an independent project with a formal press release. And the Rust port merged today - what started as a panic rewrite now ships release 0.1.0.
> 140K stars. 102K forks. More than Anthropic's own repo.
> 512,000 lines are in the wild forever. What started as Anthropic's biggest embarrassment just became their most dangerous competitor.
You cannot make this up.