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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- The Research Behind AI-Graded Quizzes: 20 Studies on Interactive Textbooks →
Dartmouth's Phosphor study isn't an outlier — it sits inside a fast-growing 2025-2026 research cluster on LLM-graded interactive textbooks. We mapped 20 papers, from VitalSource's 15.2-million-event doer-effect replication to Google's Learn Your Way RCT to the Bastani-vs-Kestin fight over whether AI helps or harms learning, and pulled out what actually holds up.
- Claude Code Community Projects: 6 Builds Worth Studying →
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- Vomit: A Local LLM Hook That Rewrites Claude 5’s Claudish Output →
A Hacker News front-page thread about zachahn/vomit crystallized a complaint builders have been trading for months — Opus 5’s dense, jargon-heavy Claudish prose is exhausting to read eight hours a day. explainx.ai breaks down what Vomit does, what it does not save, and the alternatives.
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