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Cherny: AI models won't need rigid sub-agent roles in 6-12 months
“But I think that the models six or 12 months from now, they probably won't need this anymore because they're all going to be pretty good and you won't have to define very rigidly what each one's responsibilities are anymore.”
Cherny: Claude Code does not use RAG for codebase memory
“And so quad code actually doesn't use this technique called rag. Instead, what it does is it just searches files the same way that a human would.”
Boris Cherny: Programming will shift from text manipulation to working with agents
“I think one way it will definitely play out is it's going to change programming where programming is no longer direct text manipulation, but it's more working with agents to get the work done.”
Cherny: Most code at Anthropic is now written using Claude Code
“You know, at this point, most code at Anthropic is written using quad code and almost everyone at Anthropic is using it every day.”
Cherny: Claude Code cut Anthropic engineering onboarding from weeks to days
“And what we saw is adanthropic technical onboarding used to take a few weeks, but now engineers are usually productive within the first few days.”
Cherny: More AI innovation will happen on platform APIs than in-house
“I think there's probably room for both. And my personal take is probably there's going to be more stuff built on top of the platform than there will be built in-house. Just because there's so many things to build and there's just not enough time and enough peo…”
Cherny: Most Anthropic employees became daily active users of Claude Code
“Pretty soon after we launched it, most of Anthropic was a daily active user”
Cherny: Claude Code can do almost anything a human does on computers
“Cloud Code can do pretty much anything that a person can do on their computer.”
Cherny: Engineering teams will become more horizontal due to AI memory tools
“And my feeling is that this is something where teams will kind of get more and more horizontal as a result of this because anyone is able to contribute in this way.”
Cherny: Claude Code requires no services beyond the API itself
“It doesn't use any services except the API itself. So that's all it needs. And then everything else you actually don't need. And this is one of the nice side effects of not doing code base indexing or anything like this is it's just very easy to hook up to.”