How Anthropic Built Claude Code (w/ Boris Cherny)

Описание: A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developing one of the most transformative coding tools of the AI era.

00:00 Intro
01:45 The most surprising moment in the rise of Claude Code
02:38 How Boris came up with the idea for Claude Code
05:38 The elegant simplicity of terminals
07:09 The first use cases
09:00 What’s in Boris’ CLAUDE.md?
11:29 How do you decide the terminal’s verbosity?
15:44 Beginner’s mindset is key as the models improve
18:56 Hyper specialists vs hyper generalists
21:51 The vision for Claude teams
23:48 Subagents
25:12 A world without plan mode?
28:38 Tips for founders to build for the future
30:07 How much life does the terminal still have?
30:57 Advice for dev tool founders
32:11 Claude Code and TypeScript parallels
35:34 Designing for the terminal was hard
37:36 Other advice for builders
40:31 Productivity per engineer
41:36 Why Boris chose to join Anthropic
44:46 How coding will change
46:22 Outro

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