Father of Claude Code personally responds to the leak: the mistake was made by human manual steps, and the solution is to let AI handle more.

According to 1M AI News monitoring, Boris Cherny, the father of Claude Code, responded on X to the source code leak incident, confirming that the cause was a human error in the deployment process: “Our deployment process has a few manual steps, and one of them wasn’t done right.” He said the team has already made improvements and is adding more checks.

This response is quite revealing in its context. In December last year, Cherny posted that “over the past 30 days, my 100% contribution to Claude Code was done by Claude Code.” After the leak, some users unearthed this post, implying that AI autonomously writing code was the true root cause of the incident. Cherny’s reply directly dismisses this speculation: the problem lies precisely in the human manual operation.

His reflection on the incident was: “Like other incidents, the counterintuitive solution is to find a way to accelerate the process, not to add more steps. This time, it’s about more automation—and letting Claude verify the results.” An incident caused by human error ultimately points to a solution involving greater AI involvement.