Boris Cherny: How We Built Claude Code

Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, discusses the development, usage, and future of AI-assisted coding. Cherny emphasizes Anthropic's strategy of building for future model capabilities, advising founders to focus on areas where current models struggle, as those will improve rapidly. He recounts Claude Code's accidental origin as a terminal-based API tool, highlighting its surprising utility and the team's iterative, user-driven approach to development. The conversation covers the importance of "latent demand" in product development, the trade-offs between model-specific scaffolding and waiting for general model improvements, and the evolving role of software engineers in an AI-driven world, where coding becomes more accessible and engineers become generalists. Cherny also touches on AI safety and Anthropic's mission-driven approach.