Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
by ukuina on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:05PM
(#46979271)
Patching's not long for this world; Claude Code has moved to binary releases. Soon, the NPM release will just be a thin wrapper around the binary.
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Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
by InvisGhost on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @06:28PM
(#46982711)
Where there's a will, there's a way
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
by shepherdjerred on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @09:00PM
(#46983994)
the binary is just bun. I wrote this to inspect CC
https://github.com/shepherdjerred/monorepo/tree/main/package...
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
by yencabulator on Monday February 16, 2026 @10:20PM
(#47043325)
Kinda crazy to buy a Javascript engine company to obfuscate your React TUI.
Re:Claude Code Is Being Dumbed Down
by shepherdjerred on Tuesday February 17, 2026 @02:40AM
(#47044740)
I doubt that's why they bought it. It's not obfuscated; just minified.