Boris Cherny

Boris Cherny

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Opening
Boris Cherny (00:00:00): 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. So, at the moment I have, like, five agents running. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:10): While we're recording this? Boris Cherny (00:00:11): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:12): Do you miss writing code? Boris Cherny (00:00:13): I have never enjoyed coding as much as I do today, because I don't have to deal with all the minutia....

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Low-ego framing
Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:10): While we're recording this? Boris Cherny (00:00:11): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Lenny Rachitsky (00:00:12): Do you miss writing...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Lenny Rachitsky (00:01:47): A huge thank you to Ben Mann, Jenny Wen, and Mike Krieger for suggesting topics for this conversation. Don't forget to check out...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Low-ego framing
(00:03:55): I want to start with a spicy question. About six months ago, I don't know if people even remember this, you actually left Anthropic. You joined Cursor. And then two weeks later you went back...

Uses we/us, uncertainty, or learner framing instead of performing authority.

Accept praise cleanly
Amazing. Oh, man. Boris, I could chat with you for hours. I'll let you go. Thank you so much for doing this. You're wonderful. Where can folks find you online? How can listeners be useful to you?...

Accepts praise without shrinking from it or turning it into a performance.

Ending
The experience on Twitter has been pretty great. It's been awesome just engaging with people, and seeing what people want, hearing about bugs, hearing about features. Lenny Rachitsky (01:26:38): I saw [inaudible 01:26:38] the other day on Twitter. You're, like, posting many threads, and it was breaking. And just, like, "Oh, man. What's going on here?" Boris Cherny (01:26:45): Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. There was a bug. I hope it's fixed now. Lenny Rachitsky (01:26:49): Amazing. Oh, man....

The ending hands attention back to the guest's work instead of ending on the host.