It’s also my understanding that Anthropic has historically been relatively leak-free, until a certain memo leaked a few weeks ago during the DoW incident. Supposedly twice is still coincidence, not enemy action, but it does feel like a questionable coincidence and I wonder if the same person is responsible for both leaks.
It is likely a coincidence. Bun, which is a JavaScript runtime that Anthropic purchased recently, currently has a similar open issue on their Github page. While Jarred Sumner, the creator of Bun, has clarified that this is not the reason for the leak, this open issue shows how easy it is to leak files while packaging. Claude Code is built (vibe coded) almost fully by using Claude Code, so it’s possible it made a configuration mistake which led to the leak. It’s not like there haven’t been configuration mistakes that led to worse consequences in the past.
The leak itself is not too big of a deal—there aren’t some secret techniques used in the creation of Claude Code. There were, however, some surprising feature leaks. Like the tamagochi-like feature they planned to ship called Buddy. Another surprising thing was that they used an old-school regular expression to classify sentiment—looking for profanity keywords. This is surprising, because common wisdom would tell you that they could have just used the LLM to classify sentiment. Whether this was a deliberate choice or just a result of excessive vibe coding, it’s harder to tell.
It is likely a coincidence. Bun, which is a JavaScript runtime that Anthropic purchased recently, currently has a similar open issue on their Github page. While Jarred Sumner, the creator of Bun, has clarified that this is not the reason for the leak, this open issue shows how easy it is to leak files while packaging. Claude Code is built (vibe coded) almost fully by using Claude Code, so it’s possible it made a configuration mistake which led to the leak. It’s not like there haven’t been configuration mistakes that led to worse consequences in the past.
The leak itself is not too big of a deal—there aren’t some secret techniques used in the creation of Claude Code. There were, however, some surprising feature leaks. Like the tamagochi-like feature they planned to ship called Buddy. Another surprising thing was that they used an old-school regular expression to classify sentiment—looking for profanity keywords. This is surprising, because common wisdom would tell you that they could have just used the LLM to classify sentiment. Whether this was a deliberate choice or just a result of excessive vibe coding, it’s harder to tell.