Don't forget the employees doing the actual model training and research are not the same ones coding Claude Code. CC was a side-project by one employee that ended up hitting it big and is now one of the core parts of their income. They were never a software company per se. This is like how MidJourney was just on Discord forever, because no one on the team was a real web developer. Discord made it easy to get something out there, scale up to many users, etc.

Oh, no it was absolutely on purpose. Why else you'd have code that looks for a certain string in commit and does the reroute ?