Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Anthropic’s Claude Code, hasn’t handwritten a line of code in eight months. But that doesn’t mean he’s stopped building software—it just means he now manages a massive fleet of AI agents to do much of the work.
“This morning I was managing maybe a few hundred,” he said during the opening session of the 25th annual Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen on Monday. “Some days it’s … thousands, or tens of thousands.” This is a big change from even just a year and a half ago, he explained, when developers were running one instance of Claude Code in one terminal window.
