Boris Cherny

“And the thing that drew me to Anthropic was the mission. And it's all about safety. And when you talk to people at Anthropic, just, like, find someone in the hallway, if you ask them why they're here,...”

“These numbers are just totally crazy. Right? Like, 4% of all commits in the world is just way more than I imagined. And, like you said, it still feels like the starting point. These are also just publ...”

“And I think the crazy thing for me isn't even the number that we're at right now, but the pace at which we're growing, because if you look at Claude Code's growth rate across any metric it's continuin...”

“And we've been working on this for a long time. And when you look at the team that I started on, it was called Anthropic Labs team, and actually Mike Krieger and Ben Mann they just kicked this team of...”

“The team built some pretty cool stuff. So, we built Claude Code, we built MCP, we built the desktop app. So, you can see the seeds of this idea. It's coding, then it's tool use, then it's computer use...”

“But, yeah. If you work in AI, you just really have to understand the model to some degree to do good work. So, I took a little detour to do that, and then I came back and just started prototyping what...”

“But from the start I built it in a terminal, because for the first couple months it was just me. So, it was just the easiest way to build. And, for me, this was actually a pretty important product les...”

“Then we started thinking about what other form factors we should build, and we actually decided to stick with the terminal for a while. And the biggest reason was the model is improving so quickly, we...”

“And, of course, now Claude Code is available in the iOS and Android Claude app. It's available in the desktop app. It's available on the website. It's available as IDE extensions in Slack and GitHub. ...”

“So, yeah. At the beginning it was a surprise that this thing was even useful. And as the team grew, as the product grew, as it started to become more and more useful to people, just people around the ...”

“And I remember the room audibly gasped. It was such a crazy prediction. But I think at Anthropic, this is just the way ... The way we think about things is exponentials. And this is very deep in the D...”

“So, we really just think in exponentials. And if you look at the exponential, the percent of code that was written by Claude at that point, if you just trace the line, it's pretty obvious we're going ...”