Boris Cherny
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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4 Mar 2026
Our framing
Recorded here asWith a good enough plan, a coding agent implements the whole change in one attempt.
Their wordsonce there is a good plan, it will one-shot the implementation almost every time.
↗Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineernewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
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4 Mar 2026
Our framing
Recorded here asA migration must be finished once it is started, because a half-migrated codebase confuses models as much as it confuses people.
Their wordsalways make sure that when you start a migration, you finish the migration.
↗Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineernewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
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4 Mar 2026
Our framing
Recorded here asWorking prototypes have replaced product requirement documents.
Their wordsThere’s just no way we could have shipped this if we started with static mocks and Figma or if we started with a PRD.
↗Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineernewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
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4 Mar 2026
Our framing
Recorded here asThe scarce skill is now context switching across parallel agents, not sustained deep work.
Their wordsIt’s not so much about deep work, it’s about how good I am at context switching and jumping across multiple different contexts very quickly.
↗Building Claude Code with Boris Cherny — The Pragmatic Engineernewsletter.pragmaticengineer.com
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25 Feb 2026
Our framing
Recorded here asBuild for the model six months from now, not the model of today.
Their wordsAt Anthropic, we don't build for the model of today, we build for the model of six months from now. And that's still my advice to founders that are building on LLMs.
↗Y Combinator, quoting Boris Cherny on the Lightcone Podcastx.com