Boris Cherny

10 statements across 1 episodes · 7 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 7, 2025 by Boris Cherny · said 9 times in 4 episodes since 2025 · across every show →

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May 7, 2025 positive
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Claude Code's markdown parser was generated by Claude in two prompts
“And so the night before the release at like, 10 PM, I'm like, all right, I'm going to do this. So I just asked Quad to write a markdown parser for me. And they wrote it. It wasn't quite zero shot, but after, you know, like maybe like one or two prompts, it got…”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 1:03:04 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025 bullish
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Boris Cherny: Developers will increasingly generate custom libraries using AI
“I expect that a lot more people are going to start doing things like this, like writing your own libraries or just shipping every feature.”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 1:04:03 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025 positive
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Cherny: Internal DAU for Claude Code went vertical across Anthropic
“Then we gave all the engineers and researchers at Anthropic access and pretty soon everyone was using it every day. And I remember we had this DAU chart for internal users and I was just watching it and it was vertical like for days”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 2:57 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025
Insight
Cherny: Coding agents require early failure detection over delayed intervention
“And what we find is that if the model is doing something wrong, it's better to identify that earlier and correct it earlier, and then you're gonna have a better time. If you wait for the model to just go down this like totally wrong path and then correct it 10…”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 27:17 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Cherny: Anthropic uses Bun to compile Claude Code executables
“So we use Bunn to compile the code together.”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 25:00 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Anthropic avoided building an IDE to target future AI model scaling
“If we want some product that has like very broad a product market fit today, we would build, you know, a cursor or a Windsurf or something like this. Like these are awesome products that so many people use every day. I use them. That's not the product that we …”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 6:57 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025 neutral
Insight
Cherny: Rich CLI development resembles cross-browser issues of the IE6 era
“So building in this way, it feels to me a little bit like a building for the browser back in the day where you had to think about like, Internet Explorer six versus Oprah versus like Firefox and whatever. Like you have to think about these cross-terminal diffe…”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 24:25 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025
Disclosure
Boris Cherny: Claude Code was prototyped using Anthropic's public API
“When I joined Anthropic, I was experimenting with different ways to use the model kind of in different places. And the way I was doing that was through the public API, the same API that everyone else has access to.”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 2:07 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Cherny: I have not manually written a unit test in months
“So for example, like, I have not manually written a unit test in many months.”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 36:36 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
May 7, 2025 bullish
Opinion
Cherny: Claude Code delivers up to 10x productivity gains for Anthropic engineers
“Anecdotally for me, it's probably two X my productivity. So I'm just like, I'm an engineer that codes all day, every day. For me, it's probably two X. Yeah. I think there's some engineers at Anthropic where It's probably 10 X their productivity”
Boris Cherny May 7, 2025 ▶ 1:05:57 Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent
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