Claude Code creator Boris Cherny runs thousands of agents; AI has written 100% of his team's code
pvncher · x · 2026-10-22
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, told Stanford's "The Modern Software Developer" course he's currently running "a few thousand" Claude agents.
Key takeaways from his talk:
- Claude has written 100% of his team's code since November; output is up 10x per engineer
- So much code ships that people stopped reading it carefully, so the team automated code review — approvals are next. The method: identify bottlenecks blocking velocity and build systems to unblock themselves
- "Build for the model 6 months out": early Claude Code revenue was flat for months because model capability kept evolving (thread truncated)
The poster quips about Boris keeping 1000+ Claudes running at all times.
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