The Creator of Claude Code on The Hottest Piece of Software in the World
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Odd Lots
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Odd Lots
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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny explains the product’s origins, its safety tradeoffs and what engineering judgment looks like when writing code is no longer the scarce skill.
An Odd Lots podcast interview with Boris Cherny, the Anthropic engineer who created Claude Code, covering how the agentic coding tool was built, Anthropic's product and business strategy around it, safety and alignment considerations, and how AI-assisted coding is reshaping which skills matter for software engineers.
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Boris Cherny discusses the origins of Claude Code, how Anthropic builds an agentic coding tool, business goals, safety and alignment, and what skills matter for engineers when code writing is deemphasized.
