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Boris Cherny

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app / recommends

Claude desktop app

“For people that are just learning to use Cowork, the thing I recommend is, so, you download the Claude desktop app”

Lenny's Podcast · 19 Feb 2026

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app / uses

Cowork

“Like, I use Cowork every day now to do all sorts of things that are just not related to coding at all, and just to do it automatically.”

Lenny's Podcast · 19 Feb 2026

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Functional Programming in Scala

“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.”

Lenny's Podcast · 19 Feb 2026

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01 / belief

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.

“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.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

04 / belief

I do think that there is a future where I think by the end of the year what we're going to start to see is these start to get even murkier where I think in some places the title software engineer is going to start to go away, and it's just going to be replaced by builder or maybe it's just everyone is going to be a product manager and everyone codes, or something like this.

“I do think that there is a future where I think by the end of the year what we're going to start to see is these start to get even murkier where I think in some places the title software engineer is going to start to go away, and it's just going to be replaced by builder or maybe it's just everyone is going to be a product manager and everyone codes, or something like this.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

05 / belief

I think in the short-term it'll persist, but one thing that we're starting to see is there's maybe a 50% overlap in those roles where a lot of people are actually just doing the same thing, and some people have specialties.

“I think in the short-term it'll persist, but one thing that we're starting to see is there's maybe a 50% overlap in those roles where a lot of people are actually just doing the same thing, and some people have specialties.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

06 / belief

My take is I think for people that are using Claude Code, that are using agents to code today, you still have to understand the layer under, but, yeah, in a year or two, it's not going to matter.

“My take is I think for people that are using Claude Code, that are using agents to code today, you still have to understand the layer under, but, yeah, in a year or two, it's not going to matter.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

08 / belief

We call this multi-Claude-ing. So, it's a little more native I think for folks that are not engineers, and really this is back to bringing the product to where the people are.

“We call this multi-Claude-ing. So, it's a little more native I think for folks that are not engineers, and really this is back to bringing the product to where the people are.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

09 / belief

Facebook Dating I think started in a pretty similar place. And I think the observation was if you look at profile views, so, people looking at each other's profiles on Facebook, 60% of profile views were people that are not friends with each other that are opposite gender.

“Facebook Dating I think started in a pretty similar place. And I think the observation was if you look at profile views, so, people looking at each other's profiles on Facebook, 60% of profile views were people that are not friends with each other that are opposite gender.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

10 / belief

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.

“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.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast

11 / belief

We released Claude Code really early, because we wanted to study safety. And we actually used it within Anthropic for I think four or five months, or something before we released it, because we weren't really sure.

“We released Claude Code really early, because we wanted to study safety. And we actually used it within Anthropic for I think four or five months, or something before we released it, because we weren't really sure.”
Speaker
Boris Cherny
Publisher
Lenny's Podcast
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