Cherny: Prompt Engineering Skills Determine Success With Coding Agents
Boris Cherny · Claude Code: Anthropic's CLI Agent · May 7, 2025 · at 1:09:40
Boris Cherny, engineer at Anthropic building Claude Code, shares observations from shadowing users across technical and non-technical roles.
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“And one thing we find is that people that are really good at prompting models, From whatever context, maybe they're not even technical, but they're just really good at prompting. They're really effective at using code. And if you're not very good at prompting, then code tends to go off the rails more and do the wrong thing. So I think in this stage of where models are at today, it's definitely worth taking the time to learn how to prompt model as well.”
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