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Boris Cherny's Fortune interview expanded on his Lenny's appearance. Key metrics: 4% of public GitHub commits now by Claude Code (predicted 20% by year-end), 200% productivity increase at Anthropic. His printing press analogy: scribes became bookbinders. "I have not edited a single line by hand since November." His formula: "Underfunding teams + unlimited tokens = better AI products." These claims are testable with a built-in accountability timeline.
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The Cherny "coding is solved" cascade reached Lenny's Podcast (one of the largest product/engineering podcasts). New details: Cherny hasn't written a single line of code by hand since November. Anthropic reports 200% engineer productivity increase since adoption. Claude Code d...
Claude Code creator doubled down in Fortune: "I think by the end of the year, everyone is going to be a product manager, and everyone codes. The title software engineer is going to start to go away." Replaced by "builder." Compares to printing press. "I have not edited a singl...
Issue 6235 on anthropics/claude-code asks Claude Code to read AGENTS.md, the config file that Codex, Amp, Cursor and most other harnesses already load, rather than only CLAUDE.md. It has been open since August 2025. It has accumulated over 5,200 reactions and 300+ comments, ma...
This is the paper of the week. arXiv 2607.28871 introduces BSG-VA, which replays every validation command an agent runs across three code states: the original buggy code (B), the candidate patch (S), and the gold developer fix (G). If a test passes in all three states, it neve...
The full recordings include the keynote, a Dario and Daniela Amodei conversation, and a live coding session between Boris Cherny and Bun's Jarred Sumner. The engineering talks are where the value is: GitHub on caching, harnesses and advisors at scale, Datadog's universal machi...
Published July 16 by the Claude Code creator: Gated (0 agents, legacy approvals) → Assisted (~1, pair programming) → Parallel (~10, orchestrator role) → Supervised autonomy (~100, manager-of-managers) → AI-native (1,000+, intent steering). Anthropic self-reports operating at S...
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