What Boris Cherny thinks about AI agents
Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.
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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Boris Cherny has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsYou don't need slash goal, you don't need slash loop. These help, but really all you need is give the model the task, give it a way to verify the output of its work so it doesn't get stuck, and it will just go.
↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 15th of 20 in this recording
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Their wordswe're on the path to fully automating the maintenance of our apps by doing this. And this is again hundreds of agents running every day, sometimes thousands of agents every day. It's doing the work of you know, dozens or hundreds of engineers.
↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 18th of 20 in this recording
- 5 months earlier
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Our readingThe 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.
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