Head of Claude Code at Anthropic
Boris Cherny
Boris Cherny is the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. His work focuses on AI coding tools, developer workflows, and software engineering.
About Boris Cherny
Boris Cherny is the creator of Claude Code and leads the product at Anthropic. Claude Code is an AI coding tool used in software development, including work on existing codebases and modernization projects.
He presents technical sessions about Claude Code's development and its use in engineering workflows. His personal writing also covers JavaScript, TypeScript, frontend engineering, and the practical work of building software.
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- Top 10 Things to Build With GPT-6 Astra (2026) →
GPT-6 Astra's launch-week coverage produced dozens of demos, but most builders don't need a maze-solving CAPTCHA gauntlet — they need to know what's actually worth building with it today. These are ten concrete, buildable project ideas GPT-6 Astra is well-suited for, each grounded in a real demo or benchmark explainx.ai has already covered.
- Claude for Startups: What Building on Claude Actually Looks Like →
Anthropic's ClaudeDevs account shared a video of founders describing what it's like to build a company on Claude right now, filmed at Frontier Day — one stop on a growing circuit of Anthropic founder events. Here's what Claude for Startups actually offers, who qualifies, and what founders in the video and replies actually said about it.
- Claude Code Mods: Anthropic Opens a Community Extension Layer →
Boris Cherny of Anthropic's Claude Code team announced on September 14, 2026 that "Claude Mods are landing now," pointing to GitHub issue anthropics/claude-code#91870 as the coordination thread. explainx.ai breaks down what mods actually are, how they differ from skills, MCP servers, hooks, and subagents, and what the first community-built mods — a playable Tetris game, a breathing-exercise focus tool, and a CI status panel — reveal about where this is headed.
- Mustafa Suleyman's "Humanist AI" Code of Conduct: The 10 Rules for MAI Models →
Mustafa Suleyman posted Microsoft AI's "Code of Conduct for Humanist AI" on September 14, 2026, open for public comment for six weeks. It rejects model welfare and AI rights outright, bans "neuralese" reasoning humans can't read, and requires every MAI model to be interruptible, correctable, and shut-down-able before it ships. Here's what each of the 10 points actually commits Microsoft to.