Odd Lots · Monday, July 20, 2026
Boris Cherney, creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, discusses the profound impact of AI on software engineering. He explains how AI models, by writing code, are fundamentally changing the development process, shifting engineers' roles towards higher-level problem-solving and design.
“And so what changed when we release quad code is developers stopped writing the software directly the way that they've been doing the last you know, like fifty years, and they started talking to the model, and the model writes the software.”
“And so like when I look at my work, I used to have this like deep focus mode, and you know, outspend days or weeks on writing one piece of software. And now what I do is I talk to QUAD and you know, at any point I have a few clouds running, sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands, and they're collaborating on building software together, and this frees me up, so I can think of more things for them to do.”
“And so like when I look at my work, I used to have this like deep focus mode, and you know, outspend days or weeks on writing one piece of software. And now what I do is I talk to QUAD and you know, at any point I have a few clouds running, sometimes hundreds, sometimes thousands, and they're collaborating on building software together, and this frees me up, so I can think of more things for them to do.”