Boris Cherny
20 statements across 2 episodes · 12 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 17, 2026 by Boris Cherny · said 7 times in 3 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Feb 17, 2026 neutral
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
Cherny uninstalled his IDE and lands 20 AI-written PRs daily
“For me personally, it's been a hundred percent for like since Opus 4.5. I just, I uninstalled my IDE. I don't edit a single line of code by hand. It's just a hundred percent quad code in Opus. And you know, I land, you know, like 20 pairs a day, every day.”
Feb 17, 2026 neutral
Feb 17, 2026 neutral
Cherny: AI makes traditional senior engineering opinions less relevant
“In my old job at a big company, when I hired like architects and this kind of a type of engineer, you look for people that have a lot of experience and really strong opinions, but it actually turns out a lot of this stuff just isn't relevant anymore. And a lot…”
Feb 17, 2026 positive
Feb 17, 2026 positive
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
Feb 17, 2026 positive
Cherny: Dev tool startups should enable what AI models naturally attempt
“The way I would frame it is think about the thing that the model wants to do and figure out how do you make that easier? And that's something that we saw, you know, like when I first started hacking on Claude code, I realized like this thing just wants to use …”
Feb 17, 2026 neutral
Anthropic employees revolted when Claude Code hid bash output
“I remember early on, this is maybe six months ago, I tried to get rid of bash output, just internally, just to, like, summarize it, because I was like, these giant long bash commands, I don't actually care. And then I gave it to anthropic employees for a day, …”
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
Feb 17, 2026
Cherny: The most effective AI engineers are hyper-specialists or hyper-generalists
“When I look at engineers on the team that I think are the most effective, there's essentially two, it's very bimodal. There's one side where it's extreme specialists and so, like, I named Jared before, like, he's a really good example of this, and kind of the …”
Feb 17, 2026 neutral
Scaffolding gains get wiped out by next-generation AI models
“There's this other general principle that I think is maybe interesting where you can build for the model and then you can build scaffolding around the model in order to improve performance a little bit. And depending on the domain, you can improve performance,…”
Feb 17, 2026
No code in the Claude Code codebase is over six months old
“All of CloudCode has just been written and rewritten and rewritten and rewritten over and over and over. We unship tools every couple weeks. We add new tools every couple weeks. There's no part of CloudCode that was around six months ago. It's just constantly …”
Feb 17, 2026 bullish
Feb 17, 2026 positive
Cherny: Anthropic operates as a research lab prioritizing models over product
“So one is it operates as a research lab. So the product org was teeny, teeny, tiny. It's really all about building a safe model. That's all that matters. And so this idea of just being very close to the model and being very close to development and being not t…”
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Cherny: Only Add System Prompt Instructions When Models Repeatedly Stumble
“The thing that you want to do is you want to run it. And if it's like a custom agentic product that you're building, you want to kind of run the products. You want to see where it fails with the model. You want to see what it does well. If you're using quad co…”
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Cherny: Claude Code Users Should Delete CLAUDE.md Scaffolding Every Six Months
“Every six months, delete your Cloud MD. Delete your skills. Delete your hooks. See what the model does, and it might surprise you. And actually for Opus Five, this is something we really do recommend, is just try deleting all of these things, because the model…”
Jul 27, 2026 bullish
Jul 27, 2026 positive
Cherny: Prompt modern models with high-level guardrails, not micromanaged steps
“And for modern models, that's actually really not the way to do it. You want to go a little bit higher level. You want to describe the task. You want to describe the guardrails. You want to describe, like, the exit criteria, and then just go with the model coo…”
Jul 27, 2026 negative
Cherny: Veteran engineers fail with AI models by over-specifying tasks
“When I look at engineers that have been, you know, coding for a long time, you know, like for years or for decades, this is a really, really common failure mode is trying to over specify and it's trying to be overly specific and then, you know, get the model t…”