Yes. The OP wrote:
>>>> so decides to let Claude Code plagiarize one
Read it carefully: Claude Code is the actor that's doing the plagiarizing.
What Tobias Lutke is doing is gushing about plagiarism like it's original work.
It's like if I gave you a copy of To Kill a Mockingbird, but with my name as the author, and you then went around telling everyone how impressive of a writer I am.