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Boris Cherny

She oversees both Boris Cherney and Kat Wu, both of whom who have been on the podcast

1 episode · 1 sourced appearance

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“Today my guest is Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic.”

Speaker: Lenny Rachitsky▶ Watch at ~0:30approx.

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Use the most capable model on max effort, start in plan mode, then auto-accept — counterintuitively cheaper.

Design your AI product for the model that ships in six months, not the one you have today.

Give the model tools and a goal, not a rigid workflow — scaffolding gains get wiped out by the next model.

Find your next product by watching people misuse your current one for something it wasn't designed to do.

Fix every piece of user feedback within minutes so people feel heard and give you even more.

Deliberately under-staff projects and hand out unlimited tokens so people are forced to automate with AI.

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