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19 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
“I'm a big reader. I would start with a technical book. It is Functional Programming in Scala. This is the single best technical book I have ever read. It's very weird, because you're probably not going to use Scala. And I don't know how much this matters in the future now, but there's this just elegance to functional programming and thinking in types, and this is just the way that I code, and the way that I can't stop thinking about coding.”
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- Boris Cherny
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- 19 Feb 2026
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…First question, what are two or three books that you find yourself recommending most to other people? I'm a big reader. I would start with a technical book. It is Functional Programming in Scala. This is the single best technical book I have ever read. It's very weird, because you're probably not going to use Scala. And I don't know how much this matters in the future now, but there's this just elegance to functional programming and thinking in types, and this is just the way that I code, and the way that I can't stop thinking about coding. Wow.…
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