Link to: https://www.ycrootaccess.com/p/boris-cherny-building-claude-code
Cherny (Anthropic) ran Claude Code for 14 days rewriting the Electron desktop app to Swift via pixel-by-pixel comparison, still unfinished. The signal: AI faithfully ports bad design without addressing root UX flaws—a verification gap in complex refactoring.
Boris Cherny on Trying to Get Claude Code to Rewrite the Claude App
Boris Cherny, head of Claude Code at Anthropic, was interviewed by Diana Hu on stage at Y Combinator’s Startup School 2026 last week. Starting around 20:30 in the video, he briefly discussed directing Claude to perform difficult tasks:
Cherny: I think the skill nowadays is less about prompt
engineering and more about figuring out how do you give Claude a
hard task that seems a little bit too hard. Then how do you make
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on Opus 5, agents that run for days, and building products when the models keep outrunning you.
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