Anthropic Developer Trust Crisis: Gergely Orosz Calls Out DMCA Abuse, Claude Code Restrictions, and Ecosystem Hostility

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Pragmatic Engineer author Gergely Orosz posted that Anthropic is 'burning more and more dev goodwill' as Claude Code suddenly refuses non-software-development tasks and becomes unusable for previously-working workflows. Separately, Anthropic issued DMCA takedowns on legitimate forks of their own public Claude Code repository — later acknowledged as unintentional. Orosz concluded Anthropic is 'happy to have pretty much no ecosystem around Claude.' Combined with the 1,130-point GitHub issue, this represents a multi-front developer trust crisis.