“Coding is largely solved.”

The programmer who no longer writes code by hand. Ships dozens of pull requests a day. Believes coding, as we knew it, is over.

4% of public GitHub commits are Claude Code
100% of Boris's code written by AI since Nov 2025
150+ PRs Boris shipped in a single day
Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code, smiling beside the quote “Coding is largely solved.”

Scripture

Real words from real people about how Claude Code changed their work — pulled from interviews, keynotes, and podcasts.

“100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November. Every day I ship 10, 20, 30 pull requests.”

— Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code, on Lenny’s Podcast, Feb 2026 [source]

“There was a day last week I did like 150 PRs in a day … for me, it’s just solved.”

— Boris Cherny at Sequoia AI Ascent 2026 [source]

“I have never enjoyed coding as much as I do today because I don’t have to deal with all the minutia. Productivity per engineer has increased 200%.”

— Boris Cherny, on why he doesn’t miss typing code [source]

“Claude Code launched just one year ago. Today it writes 4% of all GitHub commits, and DAU 2x’d last month alone.”

— Lenny Rachitsky, host of Lenny’s Podcast [source]

“Now we’re at the point where Claude Code writes something like 80% of the code at Anthropic on average. It writes all my code.”

— Boris Cherny on Pragmatic Engineer, March 2026 [source]

“I don’t write code. I prompt Claude. And actually nowadays, mostly what I’m doing is I have a Claude that prompts other Claudes.”

— Boris Cherny on Big Technology Podcast, May 2026 [source]

“At any moment in time, I have a few agents — or sometimes thousands of agents — running that are doing my work.”

— Boris Cherny on CNBC, May 2026 [source]

“Anthropic has seen a 150% increase in engineer productivity since Claude Code’s introduction.”

— Podwise recap of Inside Claude Code with Boris Cherny [source]

Testimonies from the Devs

What it feels like when Claude Code rewires your everyday engineering.

The PR Flood

“Even in February when we released it, it was writing maybe 20% of my code. In May it was writing maybe 30%. It only crossed 100% in November. Every day I ship 10, 20, 30 PRs.”

— Boris Cherny, Head of Claude Code, on LinkedIn recap of Lenny’s Podcast [source]

Terminal Pilgrimage

“Boris runs five Claude sessions in parallel in his terminal, managing them by numbering the tabs 1 through 5. Furthermore, he runs another 5 to 10 sessions simultaneously in the claude.ai web browser.”

— Recap of Greg Isenberg × Boris Cherny interview [source]

The New Bottleneck

“If writing code is no longer the hard part, what is? According to Boris, the new bottleneck is knowing what to build — ideas, prioritization, judgment.”

— 3-minute summary of Boris on Lenny’s Podcast [source]

Every PR, Reviewed by Claude

“Every pull request at Anthropic is code reviewed by Claude Code. That actually catches maybe 80% of bugs — it’s the first round of code review.”

— Boris Cherny, Pragmatic Engineer podcast [source]

From Code Monkey to Conductor

“His way of working should no longer be called ‘programming,’ but rather ‘AI orchestration.’ He runs multiple AI sessions in parallel, develops plans, provides verification mechanisms, and accumulates team knowledge.”

— note.com writeup of the Greg Isenberg interview [source]

Fleets of Agents

“As Claude Code increasingly writes, tests, and proposes improvements to itself, developers become managers of vast fleets of AI agents.”

— Reporting on how the engineer role is changing [source]

Leave an Offering

Light a candle, watch a sermon, then go ship 30 pull requests before lunch.