Claude Code's father personally responds to the leak: The error was in the human manual step, the solution is to let AI handle more

According to 1M AI News's monitoring, Boris Cherny, the father of Claude Code, responded to the source code leak on X, confirming that the cause was human error in the deployment process: "Our deployment process has several manual steps, one of which was not done correctly." He stated that the team has made improvements and is adding more verification mechanisms.

The context of this response is quite significant. Last December, Cherny made a post stating, "In the last 30 days, all of my contributions to Claude Code were done by Claude Code." After the leak, some users dug up this post, implying that AI autonomously writing code was the root cause of the incident. Cherny's response directly refuted this association: the problematic aspect was indeed the human manual intervention.

His reflection on this incident was: "Like with other incidents, the counterintuitive solution is to find ways to speed up rather than add more process. This time it's more automation and having Claude review the output." A case of human error leading to a solution that ultimately involves more AI intervention.