interview w boris cherney on claude code (2026)

  • Everyone, not just engineers, use Claude code and everybody is constantly prototyping hundreds of times before ever shipping a feature. Anthropic doesn’t do PRDs; they just go straight to prototyping.
  • Likens software engineers to scribes who were affected by the printing press
  • Boris commented on how generalists and people with short attention spans are being rewarded.
  • Boris usually sets up five parallel Claude code sessions, starts them round robin, and has them use worktrees.