What Boris Cherny thinks about software quality

@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 software quality · Newest first

Topic

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

17 more topics

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

Sort

NewestOldest

Only Boris Cherny on software quality. See everyone on software quality

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 readingBuilding on a model is unlike any previous software engineering, because the thing you are building on cannot be designed up front.

   design

   Their wordsI I think this is sort of the crazy thing about building on models. It's just so different than all the engineering that I've ever done. Like in the past when you built on systems, you built these like big beautiful systems and you really think about the system design up front. You have like a big suite of unit tests. You think about everything and you know, like a re-architecture is a big project.

   ↗Boris Cherny: We Cut 80% of Claude Code's Promptyoutube.com 7th of 20 in this recording