Claude Code creator Boris Cherny: prompt like a coworker, specify goal, effort, verification
aakashgupta · x · 2026-10-31
Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says prompting now needs no secret sauce: talk to Claude like a coworker and give it a goal. Aakash Gupta expands on the three things that matter: what you want done, how much effort it should spend (Max costs 4x medium, scoring 58 vs 48 on the AA index), and how it should verify its work — pick a concrete judge persona rather than generic self-grading. Stop writing book-length prompts; invest in the harness instead.
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