What Boris Cherny thinks about chat interfaces

@boris-cherny · 35 positions · On ppll ↗

Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

Boris Cherny did not write this page.

We collected these quotes from things they published elsewhere, and every quote links to where it was said. They have no account here and have not endorsed this site. Quotes are word for word; the short line under each one is our own restatement, not their wording. Their own site. Is this you? Claim it or ask us to remove it. Or tell us what is wrong here.

Filter chat interfaces · Newest first

Topic

All 35chat interfaces 1LLMs 11AI agents 4Anthropic 3coding agents 3design 3JavaScript 3prompt injection 2startups 2

17 more topics

AI and jobs 1AI and science 1ambition 1benchmarks 1code generation 1developer tools 1investing 1management 1neural networks 1open source 1optimism 1patience 1remote work 1scaling laws 1simplicity 1software performance 1software quality 1

Sort

NewestOldest

Only Boris Cherny on chat interfaces. See everyone on chat interfaces

1 dated position, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Boris Cherny has said — not written or endorsed by them.

1 position so far — this page is not yet offered to search engines.

1. 27 Jul 2026

   Our readingThe skill that matters now is not prompt engineering but giving a model a way to verify its own work, and it is the thing people most often get wrong.

   Anthropic

   Their wordsI think the skill nowadays is less about prompt engineering and more about figuring out how do you give Claude a hard task that seems a little bit too hard. And then how do you make it possible for Claude to verify its work along the way? And the verification I think is probably the single most important thing that people do not get right

   ↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 14th of 20 in this recording