Boris Chernyi
Boris Cherny is a software engineer at Anthropic, where he is the creator and head of Claude Code. He previously worked as a principal engineer at Meta and is the author of the O'Reilly book Programming TypeScript. He is known for building Claude Code, an AI-powered terminal-based coding tool that has grown into a widely used engineering product.
“The idea with Claude Code was, all right, we think the model can probably do this. What if we get rid of all the scaffolding and just give the model the simplest possible harness so it can write an entire file at a time and build an entire feature.”
Source→“With modern models, there is so much product overhang that I'm not seeing startups capture. And I think there's people thinking about these problems, but there's just a huge amount of opportunity to elicit these behaviors from the model that are just like amazing and interesting and commercially valuable.”
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