Claude Code & the evolution of agentic coding — Boris Cherny, Anthropic

Boris Cherny from Anthropic discusses Claude Code, a tool designed to integrate AI models into coding workflows. He highlights the rapid evolution of AI in coding, noting that models are advancing faster than the tools built to support them. Claude Code aims to be a simple, unopinionated interface that allows developers to leverage AI in their existing environments, such as terminals, IDEs, and GitHub. Cherny emphasizes the importance of providing context to the AI and enabling it to iterate against specific targets, like tests or visual outputs, to achieve better results. He introduces plan mode, which allows users to review the AI's proposed actions before execution, and encourages feedback on the tool's UX. In a final Q&A, he briefly touches on strategies for managing multiple instances of Claude Code for parallel tasks.