Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude

Posted by hsuduebc2 on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:13AM
from the techpowerup.com dept.

https://www.techpowerup.com/354351/anthropic-bans-ai-game-clones-and-reverse-engineering-with-claude

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Re:Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude by andsoitis on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:16AM (#50336441)

This does not prevent Anthropic from reverse engineering using their internally available models.

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Re:Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude by hsuduebc2 on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:24AM (#50336509)

Sure. They can pillage others for their benefits but others can't manipulate their property which they paid for.

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Re:Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude by andsoitis on Monday November 02, 2026 @09:05AM (#50336951)

Yeah I support their choice, because as you say it is their property after all.

Amplifiese the impetus for the counter balance of open weights.

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Re:Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude by iugtmkbdfil834 on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:23AM (#50336499)

Not unexpected, automated RE was getting kinda crazy. And I am not sure Claude banning it now matters now anyway. The cat is largely out of the bag. It may slow it down though.

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Re:Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude by hsuduebc2 on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:27AM (#50336545)

I agree. They slowly lost more and more relevance in this field. With proper harness and tools this could absolutely be done with today's frontier open models.

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Re:Anthropic Bans Reverse Engineering with Claude by ro-han_solo on Monday November 02, 2026 @08:28AM (#50336560)

i believe the ban is only if you use it through claude code and not via other harnesses, enforced via system prompts in the cc app. considering opencode is finally allowing claude subs again, could be a good time to switch to opencode

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