Claude Code Founder Majored in Economics, Proving You Don't Need a CS Degree
0xsachi · x · 2026-07-30
Boris Cherny, the founder of Claude Code, actually majored in economics during college. This highlights that in the era of AI-assisted coding, building dev tools and programming no longer strictly requires a traditional computer science background.
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