Boris Cherny (Claude Code's creator): I deleted my IDE in November and hasn't opened it since. I writes more code than ever.
his actual words on stage:
I don't prompt Claude anymore. I have loops that are running. They're the ones prompting Claude. My job is to write loops.
the progression he described:
→ a year ago: writing code by hand with autocomplete
→ then: running 5-10 Claudes in parallel, prompting each one
→ now: he doesn't prompt at all - he writes the loops that prompt Claude
what it's already done inside Anthropic:
• ~3x more code shipped per engineer (he says that number is already outdated and higher)
• Cowork - a full product - built in ~8 days, 100% with Claude Code
• designers, the finance guy, even the chief of staff now ship code
his advice to founders: give everyone as many tokens as possible, and underfund every project on purpose - 2 engineers + a pile of tokens instead of 4.
the roles are melting into one "builder."
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