Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On What Grew His Career And Building at Anthropic

Boris Cherny is the Creator of Claude Code but few people know his full career story. I interviewed him about everything he learned growing at Meta and for insights from his time building Claude Code at Anthropic.

𝗣𝗼𝗱𝗰𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸𝘀:

• Transcript: https://www.developing.dev/p/boris-cherny-creator-of-claude-code
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4toWH5YQs0kS0l9mfqVDpD?si=cSsPjfc2TsqLSQRJtI8kDg
• Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod/id1777363835

𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗺𝗽𝘀:

00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:59 - Starting at FB
00:09:43 - Early side projects and book rec
00:17:05 - Being under leveled
00:18:55 - Staff (IC6) promo story
00:25:19 - Proximity to leadership learnings
00:29:36 - Scoping out work for 100s of engs
00:35:31 - Senior Staff (IC7) promo story
00:44:39 - How to find side projects
00:50:45 - Principal (IC8) promo story
00:54:20 - Building credibility in a new org
01:04:23 - Joining Anthropic
01:10:05 - Why Claude Code succeeded
01:15:56 - Claude Code use outside of code
01:17:22 - What he thinks of competition
01:22:57 - Advice for his younger self
01:23:57 - Outro

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗶𝘀:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bcherny/
• X/Twitter: https://x.com/bcherny
• Threads: https://www.threads.com/@boris_cherny

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗥𝘆𝗮𝗻:

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanlpeterman/
• Threads: https://www.threads.com/@ryanlpeterman
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