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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- Matthew Berman Loop Library: Free Agent Workflows for Developers (2026) →
If you need agent loops today, start at explainx.ai/loops — around 100 copy-ready workflows with kickoff prompts, guardrails, and new entries every week. Matthew Berman's Forward Future library is a similarly strong option with 26 practitioner-contributed recipes; here is how both compare and what early adopters like Theo (t3.gg) are running in production.
- Pi Agent Harness: Mario Zechner's Minimal Coding Agent You Can Own (2026) →
Pi's tagline is blunt: there are many agent harnesses, but this one is yours. Built by Mario Zechner (badlogic), Pi ships a small core — no baked-in MCP, sub-agents, or plan mode — and lets you extend everything via skills, extensions, and npm packages. Here is how Pi fits the harness layer we define in our agent harness guide, and why OpenClaw embeds it.
- Top 10 AI Agent Loops for Coding Workflows (2026 Guide) →
Loop engineering replaced one-shot prompting as the default AI coding skill in 2026. These ten loops cover the workflows teams run most — fixing CI, triaging bugs, building test coverage, syncing docs, and clearing review feedback — each with a verifiable stop condition. Browse all ~100 loops at explainx.ai/loops.
- Loop Engineering Is Now the Most-Discussed AI Skill on Developer Twitter →
One week ago "loop engineering" was a term most developers hadn't heard. Today it is trending across X with 2,200+ posts, championed by Anthropic's Boris Cherny and OpenAI's Peter Steinberger, critiqued by Matt Pocock, and joked about by everyone who has watched Claude say "You're right to push back! I over-engineered this!" 87 times in a row. Here is the full picture.