Claude Code creator Boris Cherny ran one prompt for 15 days straight to rewrite Electron app as native Swift
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-16
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, revealed he has kept one prompt running for 15 straight days: recreating Claude's Electron-based desktop app pixel by pixel as a native Swift app. The anecdote comes from a Y Combinator interview, offering a striking example of very long-running agent tasks.
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