Boris Cherny

Leads the development of Claude Code, which in its first year has transformed the job of software engineering and become a massive driver of Anthropic's growth. Daily active users doubled just in the past month before the episode aired. Their core argument: The title 'software engineer' will go away — everyone becomes a 'builder'. The evidence is specific: Boris himself writes zero code by hand — 100% through Claude Code, shipping 10-30 PRs daily. Furthermore, anthropic's internal productivity per engineer has increased 200%. Claude Code's daily active users doubled in a single month. In Boris Cherny's own words: "In a year or two, it's not going to matter. Coding is virtually solved. I imagine a world where everyone is able to program, anyone can just build software any time." (On whether people should learn to code.)

Boris Cherny leads Claude Code at Anthropic, where 100% of his code is written by AI and he ships 10-30 pull requests daily -- giving him a front-row seat to how AI is dissolving the boundaries between engineering, product, and design roles. Their core argument: Be a generalist -- AI is making specialist coding skills a commodity. The most effective builders cross disciplines: product, design, engineering, business, and user research. The evidence is specific: The Claude Code team: PM, engineering manager, designer, finance person, and data scientist all write code daily. Furthermore, an engineer at Anthropic who built a service in Go over a month and still 'doesn't really know Go' -- because AI handled the syntax. The printing press: literacy went from sub-1% of the population to universal, enabling the Renaissance. In Boris Cherny's own words: "Try to be a generalist more than you have in the past. For example, in school, a lot of people that study CS, they learn to code, and they don't really learn much else." (Career advice for the AI era.)

Boris Cherny leads Claude Code at Anthropic -- the AI coding tool that has transformed software engineering in its first year -- and personally ships dozens of pull requests daily without editing a single line of code by hand, making him the embodiment of his own prediction. Their core argument: Coding is virtually solved -- in a year or two it will not matter. Become a generalist who crosses disciplines instead. The evidence is specific: Boris personally ships 10-30 pull requests daily with zero hand-edited code since November 2025. Furthermore, five AI agents running simultaneously during the podcast recording, producing code in parallel. The Claude Code team structure: PM codes, designer codes, finance codes, engineering manager codes -- everyone is a builder. In Boris Cherny's own words: "100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November. Every day, I ship 10, 20, 30 pull requests." (Opening of the episode, establishing his personal experience with AI coding.)

As the person leading Claude Code — the AI coding tool that has doubled its daily active users monthly and transformed how engineers work — Cherny has direct, real-time data on how AI is dissolving the boundary between technical and non-technical roles. Their core argument: Everyone becomes a builder — the title 'software engineer' goes away. The evidence is specific: Claude Code at Anthropic has seen daily active users double monthly, demonstrating massive demand for builder-accessible coding. Furthermore, anthropic's own Claude Code team is still hiring engineers — Jevons paradox in action where more AI capability creates more demand. Claude is now 'coming up with ideas, looking at bug reports, looking at telemetry for bug fixes' — acting more like a coworker than a tool. In Boris Cherny's own words: "I think by the end of the year everyone is going to be a product manager, and everyone codes. The title software engineer is going to start to go away. It's just going to be replaced by builder." (Predicting role convergence.)

Boris Cherny is Head of Claude Code at Anthropic, which just raised a round at over $350B valuation. Claude Code has transformed the job of software engineering in its first year, and its daily active users doubled in just the past month before the interview. Their core argument: With AI agents, one person can do the work of an entire team -- individual engineer productivity has increased 200%, and the role of 'software engineer' is dissolving into 'builder'. The evidence is specific: Ships 10-30 PRs daily with 5 agents running simultaneously. Furthermore, has not edited a single line of code by hand since November. 200% increase in productivity per engineer at Anthropic. In Boris Cherny's own words: "100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November. Every day, I ship 10, 20, 30 pull requests." (On personal AI-augmented productivity at Anthropic.)