We Reverse-Engineered 12 Versions of Claude Code. Then It Leaked Its Own Source Code.

"Thank you, Claude Code. We asked humans for help 17 times. You answered in 3 days." This is a story about frustration, reverse engineering, and an AI tool that may have leaked its own source code because its creators wouldn't listen. Chapter 1: The Pain (August 2025 — February 2026) I'm a software developer building enterprise-grade open source in Go. 40+ public repos on GitHub. My projects include: GoGPU — Pure Go GPU computing ecosystem: WebGPU implementation, WGSL shader compiler (SPIR-V/MSL/GLSL/HLSL), enterprise 2D graphics, GUI toolkit. 680K+ lines of Go, zero CGO. Vulkan, Metal, GLES, DX12 backends. coregex — Regex engine 3-3000× faster than Go stdlib. 17 matching strategies, SIMD acceleration, LazyDFA, PikeVM. Drop-in regexp replacement. Born — Production-ready ML framework in pure Go. Type-safe tensors, automatic differentiation, GPU via WebGPU (123× MatMul speedup), ONNX/GGUF import. Neural networks as single Go binaries. coregx — Suite of production-grade Go libraries: HTTP