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Quoting Boris Cherny
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Boris Cherny argues that production code generated by Claude needs a higher acceptance standard than human-written code. In his quoted statement, he describes Anthropic using automated testing, code review and security review to enforce that standard. His concern is maintainability: generating a working change can still leave a codebase harder to manage. The account presents those checks as part of the work required to use coding agents responsibly, without claiming a measured reduction in defects.
Terms in this piece · Glossary
- guardrails — The checks around a model that block bad inputs and outputs — filters, validators, and permission rules the model itself can't override.
- AI agent — An AI system that doesn't just answer once but works toward a goal in a loop — taking actions, reading the results, and deciding what to do next.
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