Boris Cherny
13 statements across 1 episodes · 9 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 20, 2026 by Boris Cherny · said 6 times in 6 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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2026 6 mentions in 6 episodes 1 per episode
- Kimi K3 & AI’s Price War, What’s Happening To Google?, OpenAI’s Partner Trouble
- Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- Did Google Just Fall Behind Again?, WWDC Preview, Anthropic Files To Go Public
- How AI Changes Society, And Society Changes AI — With Obama Campaign Manager David Plouffe
- Satya Nadella’s OpenAI Concerns, Google’s Next AI Model, The AI Monet Prank
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May 20, 2026 bullish
Cherny Stopped Writing Code Entirely, Using Claude to Prompt Other Claudes
“When you look at the kind of engineering that I do, I don't write code. I prompt quad. And actually nowadays, mostly what I'm doing is I have a Claude that prompts other Claude. So I don't even talk to Claude. I have a Claude that's talking to my Claude.”
May 20, 2026
Cherny: The defining difference of an AI agent is tool use
“The thing that made quad code different from chatbots at the time was quad code can use tools. And this is it. Like, this is just the difference. It's, with a chatbot, you're going back and forth and you're talking, but an agent, and Cloud Code is an agent, it…”
May 20, 2026 positive
Cherny: Claude Code was first AI tool able to edit local computer files
“Even something as simple as like editing a file on your computer. You know, like a year and a half ago, there was no AI product that could actually do that. But this is the first thing that quad code was able to do. It could edit a file on your desktop.”
May 20, 2026 positive
May 20, 2026 bullish
Anthropic Exec Runs Hundreds of Parallel Claude Instances Every Night
“Nowadays, I'm running, you know, like, on my computer, I run maybe five at a time, and then every night, I run, like, you know, not every night, but most nights, I run, like, hundreds of quads at a time. Hundreds. Yeah, hundreds, sometimes thousands.”
May 20, 2026 positive
Cherny: AI Commoditizes Code, Making Network Effects the Ultimate Business Moat
“One that I think will increase in importance is something like network effects, because it doesn't matter who's writing the code. It doesn't matter if it's an agent at the core of your product or something else, or if there's intelligence in your product. If t…”
May 20, 2026 bullish
Anthropic Engineers Increased Code Output by Hundreds of Percent With Claude Code
“What happened with Claude is now many companies, including Anthropic, and all of our biggest customers are reporting gains on the order of hundreds of percentage points. And I think the last number that we reported is the amount of code written per engineer at…”
May 20, 2026 negative
May 20, 2026 neutral
Cherny: Do not optimize AI workflows early because top innovators are unpredictable
“The challenge is you can't identify these engineers and these people ahead of time. You don't know who they are. And it's almost always going to surprise you. And so the thing you want to do is let people experiment, give them safety, and then once there's som…”
May 20, 2026 positive
Cherny: AI models should optimize for intelligence before efficiency
“I think we should probably optimize for intelligence. That's the most important thing. So even if it's like a little bit less efficient, but it's more intelligent and it lets you do more things, that's really useful because the efficiency optimization comes af…”
May 20, 2026 bullish
May 20, 2026 bullish
Cherny: Rapid AI progress requires continuously retesting previously failed tasks
“Every month there's a step change in what it can do. And as a user of this technology, it's just quite hard because you have to kind of keep retraining. You have to keep retrying. You always need this like beginner mindset to retry the technology and use it fo…”
May 20, 2026 bearish
Cherny: AI Agents Will Destroy Switching Costs as a Software Moat
“Some modes get less important, and this is, for example, switching costs, because if you want to switch from vendor A to vendor B, you can, you know, you can just ask Quad to do that, and Quad is going to get better and better over time at it.”