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19 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
“I think a lot of people just don't really understand what this is, because they haven't used an agent before, and it just feels very, very similar, to me, to Claude Code a year ago.”
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- Boris Cherny
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- 19 Feb 2026
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…Great tip. With Cowork, just so people understand if they haven't tried this, basically, you type something you want to get done and it can launch Chrome, and just do things for you. I saw someone went on pat leave from Anthropic, and you had to fill out these medical forms for him, these really annoying PDFs where it just loads up the browser, logs in, fills them out, [inaudible 01:21:29]. Yeah. Exactly. Exactly. And it actually just works. Like, we tried this experiment a year ago, and it didn't really work, because the model wasn't ready, but now it actually just works and it's amazing. I think a lot of people just don't really understand what this is, because they haven't used an agent before, and it just feels very, very similar, to me, to Claude Code a year ago. But, like I said, it's just growing much faster than Claude Code did in the early days. So, I think it's starting to break through a bit. And there's also this Chrome extension that you mentioned that you could just leave standalone that sits in Chrome, and you could just talk to Claude looking at your screen, at your browser, and have it do stuff, have it tell you about what you're looking at, summarize what you're looking at, things like that.…
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