Anthropic engineer Boris Cherny says his coding setup now involves "a few thousand" AI agents working for him overnight.
Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, described his AI workflow during an interview with Sequoia Capital on May 4.
His answers — including how he mostly runs the agents via his phone — highlighted how some Silicon Valley engineers are beginning to use AI systems less like chatbots and more like always-on autonomous assistants.
"I have the Claude app, and if you open the Claude App, on the left-hand side, there's this little code tab, and I just have a bunch of sessions going," he said while showing his phone to the audience.
When asked how many sessions he had, Cherny said he typically runs "five to 10 sessions," each containing multiple agents.
