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Boris Cherny

What Boris Cherny thinks about coding agents

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Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic.

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  1. Our readingThe failure mode of experienced engineers with AI is over-specifying: telling the model to do the task exactly the way they would have done it.

    Their wordsSo when I look at engineers that have been, you know, coding for a long for a long time, you know, like for for years or for decades, this is a really really common failure mode is trying to over specify and it's trying to be overly specific and then, you know, get the model to do the to do the task exactly the way that you would have done it. And that that's just not the way the model works.

    ↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 16th of 20 in this recording

    Interesting
  2. 5 months earlier

  3. Our readingWith 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

    Interesting