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”
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Boris Cherny
Published podcast speaker
- Claims
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- Episodes
- 1
- Shows
- 1
- Named items
- 3
Books, apps, and tools
The evidenced stack.
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.”
book / recommends
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.”
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What Boris said.
5 transcript-backed records
01 / evaluation
So, Wandering Earth is one of the short story collections, and he just has some really, really amazing stories. And it's also just quite interesting to see Chinese sci-fi, because it has a very different perspective than western sci-fi, and the way that, at least, he, as a writer, thinks about it.
“So, Wandering Earth is one of the short story collections, and he just has some really, really amazing stories. And it's also just quite interesting to see Chinese sci-fi, because it has a very different perspective than western sci-fi, and the way that, at least, he, as a writer, thinks about it.”
- Speaker
- Boris Cherny
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
02 / evaluation
I think as soon as I got there what I started to realize is what I really missed about Ant was the mission.
“I think as soon as I got there what I started to realize is what I really missed about Ant was the mission.”
- Speaker
- Boris Cherny
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
03 / evaluation
That's a weird way to design it, and that wasn't really the intention. But from the start I built it in a terminal, because for the first couple months it was just me.
“That's a weird way to design it, and that wasn't really the intention. But from the start I built it in a terminal, because for the first couple months it was just me.”
- Speaker
- Boris Cherny
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
04 / evaluation
Like, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, all this stuff. And a lot of that was about productivity, because if you make the code higher quality, then engineers are more productive.
“Like, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, all this stuff. And a lot of that was about productivity, because if you make the code higher quality, then engineers are more productive.”
- Speaker
- Boris Cherny
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast
05 / evaluation
They fall in love with the product, and then they tell us about stuff that doesn't work, stuff that they want. And so, the only reason that it keeps improving is because everyone is using it, everyone is talking about it, everyone keeps giving feedback.
“They fall in love with the product, and then they tell us about stuff that doesn't work, stuff that they want. And so, the only reason that it keeps improving is because everyone is using it, everyone is talking about it, everyone keeps giving feedback.”
- Speaker
- Boris Cherny
- Publisher
- Lenny's Podcast