Boris Cherny (Head of Claude Code) and Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code) publish a short LinkedIn video, "Reflecting on a year of Claude Code," in which they put forward a thesis: **product and engineering roles are merging**. At Anthropic, the product team, devrel, and design **all write code**; many engineers **ship products end to end** (idea → build → legal/marketing/security → release into the world). Their conclusion: AI benefits profiles with **curiosity**, **product taste**, and a taste for **end-to-end ownership**. The note mainly captures the **comment-thread discussion** (55 comments, 28 substantive): a consensus that **reframes** the thesis — it is not roles disappearing, it is that **shipping becomes cheap**, which shifts value toward judgment and defining the right problem — set against a lucid minority on the flip side (accountability, governance, IP).
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Boris Cherny (Head of Claude Code, Anthropic) et Cat Wu (Head of Product, Claude Code, Anthropic) — vidéo ~47 s publiée par Claude for Business sur LinkedIn · repartagée par Claude. Commentateurs cités : Omer K. · Syed T. · Andrei K. van Noordt · Kristóf Nagy · Natasha Egan · Natasha Newbold · Rehan Nazir · Noman A. · Kevin Schoovaerts · Sunny Vara · Paul Breuler · Ron H. · Mohammadjavad Sayadi · Chris Bounds · Mohamed Anis · Panny Malialis · David H. · plebs.me · James Hutchinson · Dewayne J Grunden II · e.a. (28 commentaires de fond retenus sur 55).
**Boris Cherny** (Creator & Head of Claude Code @Anthropic) publishes a framework table on LinkedIn, **« Steps of AI Adoption »**, mapping an engineering team's adoption of agentic AI across **5 stages (0→4)**, each characterized by an **order of magnitude of agents driven** and a **transformation of the engineer's role**: **0 Gated** (0 agents, locked-down access), **1 Assisted** (~1 agent — "you + one agent", supervised pair programming), **2 Parallel** (~10 agents — **orchestrator**), **3 Supervised autonomy** (~100 agents — **manager of managers**, an org tree), **4 AI-native** (~1,000+ agents — **VP steering by intent**). The table crosses five columns: number of agents, *what it looks like*, *the bottleneck*, *the products that help*, *the guardrails*. **Central thesis**: consuming more tokens does not move you up a level — advancing to the next stage requires **identifying and breaking the next bottleneck** AND **building the next set of guardrails**. Concretely: giving Claude a trustworthy **self-verification loop** (tests + build + lint + e2e on a real environment), enabling **Auto mode** (avoiding blocking permission prompts), making **code review and security review the default**, adopting multi-agent interfaces (Agent view CLI, Desktop, iOS/Android apps, Tag), then `/loop`, `/batch`, `/goal`, **dynamic workflows** and **worktree isolation** for subagents. On steering: usage (dashboard) measures **activity, not return**; the right question is *"would we have spent engineering effort on this anyway? if so, how many manual engineer-hours would it have cost?"* — that's the ROI. The real payoff arrives when **fixing and maintaining happens in the background** and teams focus on *building*. Anthropic sits at **stage 3, heading toward 4**; Boris Cherny states he has personally reached **level 4**.
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Boris Cherny (Creator & Head of Claude Code @Anthropic)
Long-form essay by **Shubham Saboo** (X/Twitter) advancing a thesis on the Product Manager role in the age of agents: the next key skill is **not prompt engineering** but **Loop Engineering** — designing a *system that improves with every run* rather than writing the perfect prompt every time. A **loop** is a repeated cycle: change what shapes the agent's behavior → run it → evaluate the output → keep the change if quality rises, revert otherwise → **compound the learning** so the next version starts ahead. For a PM, the entry point is not code but the **durable artifacts** that encode their judgment: PRD-review skill, customer-call *summarizer*, evaluation rubric, launch checklist, research workflow, `CLAUDE.md`, prompt template, prioritization framework. Because they are reused, these artifacts **compound in both directions** — and **drift** silently (a CLAUDE.md that keeps growing, a checklist that gets ignored…): the model has not regressed, the artifacts have drifted unwatched. A loop has **5 parts**: trigger, action, **proof**, memory, **stop condition** (the most critical). **Evals** become PM work (testing the artifact against known examples: 3 good / 3 bad PRDs, 5 understood calls, 2 past launches). **Memory** lives on **GitHub** (the repo becomes "product memory": commits, diffs, eval results, decision log, rollback). Recommended first loop: a **weekly product signal loop** (every Friday). Taste remains central — but it now needs **proof**. Cites Boris (creator of Claude Code): "he no longer writes prompts, he writes loops."
Article by **Paul Sawers** published on **The New Stack** on **June 16, 2026**, about the **suspension by Anthropic** — *"on the very day it was scheduled to go live"* — of the billing split meant to separate **Agent SDK** usage from Claude subscription limits. **Anthropic's cited message**: *"We're pausing the changes to Claude Agent SDK usage described below. For now, nothing has changed."* **The article's contribution is not the announcement but the surrounding context**, in three circles. **Circle 1 — Anthropic's week**: on June 9, the release of **Fable 5 and Mythos 5**, the first generally available Mythos-class models with hardened cybersecurity safeguards; a few days later, a **US government export control directive** forces Anthropic to **withdraw both models for all its customers worldwide**. The pricing suspension is read as *"a little good news"* in this context. **Circle 2 — collateral damage from the timing**: companies that had already passed the change on to their own customers find themselves caught out; **Conductor**, a multi-agent coding tool built on the Agent SDK, has to issue a denial (*"Anthropic has delayed the subscription updates to Claude plans"*). **Circle 3 — the underlying tension, which extends beyond Anthropic**: a quote from **Boris Cherny** (head of Claude Code) in April, during an earlier restriction, stating that subscriptions *"weren't built for the usage patterns of these third-party tools"* — an admission that **flat-rate plans and open-ended agentic usage don't mix**; **GitHub** settled the matter the same way, removing in June **Copilot**'s flat-rate *premium requests* model in favor of **token-based billing**, despite protests. Added to this, **the same week**, a **proposed class action** was filed in a California federal court, alleging that **Max** tiers fall well short of the usage multipliers advertised for intensive coding sessions. Anthropic does not say when a revised approach will arrive, only that it *"works to update the plan to better support how users build with Claude subscriptions."* **The author's final take**: between government pressure on Fable and Mythos, a planned **IPO**, and **rumored price cuts at OpenAI**, Anthropic is trying to **keep its developer base on its side** — and the suspension is, for now, a means to that end.
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**Paul Sawers** — journaliste tech · signe ici pour **The New Stack**. Registre de **presse spécialisée** : l'article ne relaie pas seulement l'annonce · il la replace dans une série (les changements de facturation successifs d'Anthropic) · la compare à un précédent sectoriel (GitHub Copilot) et l'articule à trois pressions concomitantes (export control, IPO, concurrence). Sourçage explicite et attribué — le billet de Zed · l'analyse de Matthew Diakonov · le post de Conductor · une déclaration antérieure de Boris Cherny.
Interview with Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code, Anthropic) at a Sequoia event (hosts: Asia, Lauren Reader). Cherny states ***"coding is solved"***: he himself has written **0 lines of code** since late 2025, the model writes **100%**, *"a few dozen PRs/day, 150 PRs in a single day record"*. Account of the genesis of Claude Code (Anthropic Labs incubator late 2024, Mike Krieger in charge of round 2, pre-PMF build *"for the next model"*, a first release that didn't take off, **exponential growth started with Opus 4 in May 2025**, accelerating with each new model 4 → 4.5 → 4.6 → 4.7). Current personal setup: **"most of my work I do from my phone"** (iOS), 5-10 sessions, **"a few hundred agents going, a few thousand at night"**, **`/loop` is the future** (cron + repeat jobs, agents babysitting CI, rebasing PRs, clustering Twitter feedback). **Routines** = the server-side equivalent, running with the laptop closed. SaaS outlook: no apocalypse, but a **reshuffling of Helmer's 7 Powers framework** (switching costs ↓, process power ↓, network effects/scale economies/cornered resources unchanged) and **10× more disruptive startups** over the next 10 years. Pivot analogy: the **Gutenberg press** (10% literacy in the 1400s → 70% over the following centuries, books 100× cheaper within 50 years), *"software will be similarly democratized, but faster than 50 years"* — *"the best person to write accounting software is not an engineer, it's a really good accountant."*
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Boris Cherny (créateur de Claude Code, Anthropic) interviewé par Lauren Reader (Sequoia) avec introduction d'Asia (Sequoia).
Cat Wu and Boris Cherny (Anthropic) explain how to use Claude Code like its creators: antfooding, plan mode, subagents, hooks, and extensibility — Every's AI & I podcast
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Rhea Purohit (interviewer: Dan Shipper) · Cat Wu · Boris Cherny