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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- Boris Cherny's Opus 5.5 Acquired Home Depot Companion: Prompt and Method →
On October 6, 2026, Claude Code lead Boris Cherny shared a Claude artifact: an interactive, illustrated companion to the Acquired Home Depot episode, with a scrubbable timeline, data visualizations, sliders and watercolors drawn in code with OpenCV. He posted the prompt. Here is what the page contains, why it works, how to reproduce it for your own backlog, and the accuracy and copyright cautions.
- PhotoCraft: An Open-Source Rust Photoshop Clone, and Why "Closed Source Is Dead" Overreaches →
A GitHub project called PhotoCraft, from the ArtCraft team, describes itself as an open-source, clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop in pure Rust, with real PSD support, 34 tools, 500-plus commands and an agent-ready interface. Eric S. Raymond called it the end of closed source, and speculated about how it was built. Here is what the repository claims, what it admits, and what remains unproven.
- Opus 5.5 Agents Propose Two Room-Temperature Magnetic Semiconductor Candidates →
On October 4, 2026, Vals AI published two computational candidates for room-temperature Luttinger-compensated magnetic semiconductors, found by Claude Opus 5.5 agents running density functional theory. Both are predictions, not measurements. Here is what the agents did, what the numbers mean, and how to read the claim.
- Awesome Claude Code Mods: 50 Open-Source, MIT-Licensed Mods You Can Install Today →
Anthropic opened Claude Code to mods on October 1, 2026. Within days we published awesome-claude-code-mods: 50 independent, MIT-licensed mods for session diagnostics, Git, repository viewing, workspace notes, utilities and workflow control. Here is how to install them, which ones are worth trying first, and what they can and cannot do.