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Developers never really voiced any major desire to enter the age of AI coding; they always appeared quite happy to tap away at both chiclet and clacky mechanical keyboards into the wee small hours on manual coding tasks. But that relaxed indifference changed once real coding assistants came onto the scene. Among the most appealing tools in this space is Anthropic’s Claude Code, an AI-powered command-line coding assistant that helps developers write, edit, debug and automate code. But there’s no such thing as a free lunch or an unlimited Claude Code quota, even on the company’s $200 annual subscription deal. Limited to a Relative Multiplier According to Claude itself, “Max 20x ($200/month) is the top individual tier with 20x Pro usage, at which level rate limits stop being a practical concern for most full-day development work. That’s essentially the extent of the official promise, i.e., it’s a relative multiplier, not a hard number.” Since March, 2026, Claude Code Max subscriber...

North Korean hackers are accused of hijacking the npm account of an axios maintainer, a highly popular and widely used JavaScript HTTP client library, in the latest in a growing number of sophisticated attacks targeting open-source software developers. For a brief few hours running from late March 30 into early March 31, the bad actors were able to hijack the npm account of the primary axios maintainer and publish two new malicious versions – “axios@1.14.1” and “axios@0.30.4” – that introduced a hidden runtime dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1. When a developer or CI/CD pipeline ran the npm install, the dependency installed a remote access trojan (RAT) that contacted a command-and-control (C2) server and dropped secondary payloads targeting macOS, Windows, and Linux systems, according to researchers for StepSecurity , one of several security vendors that analyzed the attack. The RAT is capable of a range of threats, from running arbitrary commands to exfiltrating system data to es...