Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Why Coding Is Solved, and What Comes Next
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Sequoia Capital
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Sequoia Capital
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Terms in this piece · Glossary
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.
Why it matters
Cherny's claim isn't that AI helps you code faster—it's that the bottleneck has already moved off your keyboard entirely, toward dispatching and reviewing agentic work in parallel, even from your phone. Worth it if you're still treating Claude Code as autocomplete-plus and want to see how the person building it thinks about running multiple PRs at once. You'll leave with a sharper mental model for what your day actually looks like when writing lines stops being the job.
Key quotes
“there's this idea that the model can do all the stuff that no product has yet captured”
Boris Cherny
“And so, I built it, and it just really didn't work for the first 6 months. It was like not very good. It was barely usable.”
Boris Cherny
“We have no more manually written code anywhere at the company. All of the SQL is written by uh by models.”
Boris Cherny
“So, if you give it a target and you tell it to iterate until it's done, it will just do it. I think this is the first model like that.”
Boris Cherny
“The best person to write accounting software, I think maybe even today, is not an engineer, it's a really good accountant because they know the domain really well and coding is the easy part.”
