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19 Feb 2026 Lenny's Podcast Head of Claude Code: What happens after coding is solved | Boris Cherny
“We didn't know that it would start in a terminal, or anything like this. But, in some ways, it's just totally unsurprising, because this has been our belief as a company for a long time.”
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- Boris Cherny
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- 19 Feb 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…I love this answer. Ben asked me to ask you about what's the deal with you and Miso. And so, I love that you answered it. Okay. So, the future might be just going deep into miso, getting really good at making miso. Amazing. Boris, this was incredible. I feel like we're brothers now from Ukraine. Before we get to our very exciting lightning round, is there anything else that you wanted to share? Is there anything you wanted to leave listeners with? Anything you want to double down on? Yeah. I think I would just underscore for Anthropic since the beginning, this idea of starting at coding, then getting to tool use, then getting to computer use has just been the way that we think about things. And this is the way that we know the models are going to develop, or the way that we want to build our models. And it's also the way that we get to learn about safety, study it, and improve it the most. So, everything that's happening right now around just Claude Code becoming this huge multi-billion dollar business, and now all of my friends use Claude Code, and they just text me about it all the time. So, this thing getting big. In some ways, it's a total surprise, because this isn't the ... We didn't know that it would be this product. We didn't know that it would start in a terminal, or anything like this. But, in some ways, it's just totally unsurprising, because this has been our belief as a company for a long time. At the same time, it just feels still very early. Like, most of the world still does not use Claude Code, most of the world still does not use AI. So, it just feels like this is 1% on, and there's so much more to go. Oh, man. That's insane to think, seeing the numbers that are coming out. You guys just raised a bazillion dollars. I think Claude Code alone is making $2 billion revenue. Anthropic, I think the number you guys put out, you're making $15 billion in revenue. It's insane to just think this is how early it still is, and just the numbers we're seeing.…
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