Boris Cherny

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Creator and Head of Claude Code at Anthropic. Former Principal Engineer at Meta (Instagram). Author of O'Reilly's Programming TypeScript book. Created Claude Code as a side project in September 2024.

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Boris Cherny on What Grew His Career and Building at Anthropic

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Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code and former Meta principal engineer, shares how side projects, generalist thinking, and cross-org navigation shaped his career—plus insights on how AI tools are reshaping engineering productivity.

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Boris Cherny

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I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. Lots of people have asked how I use Claude Code, so I wanted to show off my setup a bit. My setup might be surprisingly vanilla! Claude Code works great out of the box, so I personally don't customize it much. There is no one correct way to use Claude Code: we intentionally build it in a way that you can use it, customize it, and hack it however you like. Each person on the Claude Code team uses it very differently. So, here goes.

Jan 2, 2026