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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- Theorem OSS Verify: Free Crash-Freedom Proofs for Open Source Projects →
Theorem Labs, the firm behind the formal models in Anthropic's 123-library verification project, now offers OSS Verify: free, AI-written Rocq proofs that a project's fuzz targets never crash. Here is what is proved, who qualifies, how to enroll and what the fine print says.
- Anthropic: Claude Proved 123 Libraries Crash-Free With Formal Verification →
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team says LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale. Claude proved no-crash properties for 239 entry points across 123 open-source libraries, at the RISC-V binary level, in a few weeks. explainx.ai walks through the method, the numbers, the bugs and the limits.
- Claude Duet: Anthropic's Proactive Agent App That Messages You First, Explained →
On October 21, 2026, Anthropic opened a research preview of Claude Duet, a standalone app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It sends a morning brief, checks your apps every few hours, takes on tasks from scheduling to dashboards in its own cloud computer, and asks before it sends, pays, signs or deletes. Here is what it does, what it costs, its limits and how it compares.
- How the Claude Code Team Does Code Review: Six Layers, Risk Tiers, and 40% Fewer Reverts →
Anthropic published how the Claude Code team reviews code when Claude writes about 90% of it. Merged PRs more than doubled from June to September while reverts fell by more than 40%. Here is the process and how to copy it.