Claude Code creator Boris Cherny ran one prompt for 15 days to rewrite his Electron app in Swift
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-16
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, revealed on Y Combinator's channel that he has kept a single prompt running for 15 days straight: recreating Claude's Electron-based desktop app pixel by pixel as a native Swift app — a rare public example of very long-running autonomous agent work.
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