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She sees the source code leak as providing a boost to Claude Code’s rivals, especially the ones that are open source and model agnostic, driven by developer interest. “Model-agnostic alternatives like OpenCode, which let you use the same kind of agentic coding assistant with any underlying model, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, or others, are now being evaluated seriously by enterprises that previously hadn’t looked [at them],” Deshpande said.
Developers are voting with their attention, even if enterprise procurement moves more slowly, she added. “A repository called Claw Code, a rewrite of Claude Code’s functionality, reached over 145,000 GitHub stars in a single day, making it the fastest-growing repository in GitHub’s history.”
Has the damage been done?
That shift in developers’ attention, though, raises a broader question: has Anthropic ceded its coding advantage to rivals? Analysts and experts think the answer is nuanced: the leak may compress Anthropic’s lead, but is unlikely to wipe it out.
