On March 31, 2026, one of the most extraordinary events in AI industry history unfolded — not through a cyberattack, not through espionage, but through a single missing line in a .npmignore file. Anthropic accidentally exposed the full source code of Claude Code, its popular AI coding assistant, via a human error in a release packaging process. 512,000 lines of unobfuscated TypeScript across roughly 1,900 files were shipped inside an npm package. Within hours, the code was mirrored, dissected, rewritten in Python and Rust, and studied by tens of thousands of developers. The Hacker NewsLayer5 How the leak happened On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally exposed the full source code of Claude Code through a 59.8 MB JavaScript source map file bundled in the public npm package @anthropic-ai/claude-code version 2.1.88. Zscaler When Anthropic acquired Bun in late 2024, Claude Code migrated to it as its bundler. Bun's bundler has a known bug: even when you explicitly set development: f...
Google Gemini is powerful but it is not right for everyone. Here are the best alternatives reviewed on AsmiAI. Why look for Gemini alternatives? - Want better coding assistance - Need longer context handling - Prefer not to use Google products - Looking for better free tier Top Gemini alternatives 1. Claude (Anthropic) Better for long documents, nuanced writing, and following complex instructions. 200K token context window vs Gemini's 1M (but Claude's quality at long context is better). 2. ChatGPT Larger plugin ecosystem, better for general tasks, stronger brand recognition. GPT-4o is competitive with Gemini 1.5 Pro. 3. Perplexity AI Better for real-time research with citations. If you use Gemini mainly for search, Perplexity is a better fit. 4. Grok (xAI) Better for real-time information and less filtered responses. Integrated with X/Twitter data. Full comparison of all Gemini alternatives at: asmiai.xyz/alternatives/to-gemini/