WORTH TESTING · 31 OCTOBER 2026
Boris Cherny with Thomas Laffont (Coatue): a real interview, misquoted
A real video call between Boris Cherny, who built Claude Code at Anthropic, and Thomas Laffont of Coatue, made for investors and re-posted by @kyr0stack with quotes he never says. Verdict: beginner level, no coding, and ideas rather than testable steps; no tools, code or demos are shown, and the big claims are his opinions. So below are the ideas worth knowing rather than things to test.
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- Anthropic Labs started with four pillars: Claude Code, MCP, the desktop app and skills. 2:00
- Code is how models act on the world, which is why coding skill matters beyond software teams. 3:16
- You describe what you want and the agent writes the whole program; he calls autocomplete last year's approach. 4:51
- He says he hasn't used a code editor in about six months and runs batches of agents overnight. 5:26
- Agents prompting other agents, with people managing the 'organisation' of agents. 6:33
- Big productivity gains per engineer (his claim, no figures). 8:18
- 'Software disappearing': custom code generated on demand (a prediction). 8:53
- Laffont predicts devices that fix themselves (a prediction). 9:47
Timestamps point to the moment in the source video.
Cost
Free to watch; the ideas don't need a specific tool.
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