Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew

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.

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• Transcript: developing.dev/p/boris-cherny-creator-of-claud…
• YouTube: youtu.be/AmdLVWMdjOk
• Apple: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/the-peterman-pod…

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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

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• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/bcherny
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• Threads: threads.com/@boris_cherny

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