Boris Cherny: how he uses Claude Code (May 2025 talk)

A 27-minute talk by Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code, at Anthropic's 'Code with Claude' event in May 2025; @oaklinelx is a repost account. Unlike our earlier Boris notes (big-picture interviews), this one has real prompts and commands. Advanced level; you need a terminal and some coding. Fact or hype: fact. It's genuinely Boris and genuinely practical, one of the clearest introductions to how Claude Code's creator works. But it's 18 months old, as the post says: slides and screenshots only, some commands and keys have changed, and his prediction that people might stop using code editors by the end of 2025 didn't happen.

Why it mattersStart with the first habit: spend a session only asking questions ('What did I ship last week?') before you let it change anything. It's the quickest way to learn what it understands about your project.

Curated by Sara Simeone as part of our human editorial coverage. The original sources are linked below; curation is distinct from a Hype or Fact? assessment.

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