Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer

Claude Code creator says 22-year-old CS grads should 'go start a startup': 'It's the golden age'

Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code.AnthropicThe creator of Claude Code encouraged recent CS graduates to embrace entrepreneurship.Boris Cherny said there has "never been a better time in history" to start a startup.Cherny said a recent talk with founders illustrated their use of tools like Claude Code.Anthropic's Boris Cherny has a simple message for the 22-year-old computer science graduates looking to figure out what's next."If you want …

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What do software developers do now?

I don’t even know what a software engineer is supposed to be doing anymore. Do we code? Do we architect systems? AI agents have changed everything, and I don’t even know what to think. I don’t write much code anymore. In my day job, I ask Claude to do most of the analysis, planning, and coding. My side projects are 100% written by Claude Code, and in some of these, I literally haven’t even reviewed the code because I trust Claude and because gSt…

Claude Code's creator on the end of the software engineer

Anthropic's Boris Cherny tells me major job loss due to automation really is coming — but job creation is, too. PLUS: the Pope's AI encyclical, and Trump abandons an AI executive order