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Boris Cherny

Software engineer at Anthropic, creator of Claude Code and author of Programming TypeScript; blogs at borischerny.com.

13 things

ClaudeService Anthropic

loved

Simple enough for everyone to access Claude's full capabilities. I've been using this experience every day for the last few weeks, and it feels awesome. Simpler, faster, and more powerful.

x.com ↗·2026-09-16

Fable 5.1Software Anthropic

loved

This model is a pleasure to work with, and I've been using it for everything.

Announcing Anthropic's Fable 5.1 model. Cherny works at Anthropic.

x.com ↗·2026-09-01

Claude Code ArtifactsSoftware Anthropic

loved

Artifacts in Claude Code have been life changing. Excited to expand to Pro and Max!

On the Artifacts feature in Claude Code, the product he created at Anthropic.

x.com ↗·2026-07-02

ClaudeSoftware Anthropic

liked

Super cool way to use Claude https://www.vals.ai/blogs/fable-solves-cyphral-distich

x.com ↗·2026-09-14

Claude Opus 5Software Anthropic

liked

Opus 5 is a great model for coding, data analysis, design, biology, knowledge work.

Launch-day post on Opus 5, focused on it being the least prompt-injectable Anthropic model. Cherny works at Anthropic.

x.com ↗·2026-07-24

ProjectsSoftware

recommended

Projects are how I write a lot of my code these days. Really excited for everyone to try the new experience! Rolling out now

x.com ↗·2026-09-17

Claude Code /checkupSoftware Anthropic

recommended

New in Claude Code: /checkup

Introducing the /checkup command that cleans up a user's Claude Code configuration.

x.com ↗·2026-07-08

OpusSoftware Anthropic

uses

I used Opus 5.5 to formally verify the Claude Agent SDK using Lean. A couple short prompts = 16 PRs fixing various bugs and race conditions.

x.com ↗·2026-09-22

LeanSoftware

uses

I used Opus 5.5 to formally verify the Claude Agent SDK using Lean. A couple short prompts = 16 PRs fixing various bugs and race conditions.

x.com ↗·2026-09-22

TLA+Software

uses

TLA+ also works well. I sometimes combine Lean and TLA+ to look for issues around data flow, concurrency, and state mgmt.

x.com ↗·2026-09-22

Auto modeSoftware Anthropic

uses

The team and I use Auto mode exclusively, and have been for many months. I couldn't imagine going back to permission prompts! Really excited to get this out to everyone.

Announcing Claude Code's Auto mode, which his own team built at Anthropic.

x.com ↗·2026-08-07

WorkplaceSoftware Meta

uses

Instead of meetings, I used Workplace posts (Meta’s internal version of Facebook Group posts) to share thoughts, start discussions, and make announcements.

An essay on working from Japan on a US team; Workplace was his employer Meta's own tool at the time.

borischerny.com ↗·2023-12-10

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The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The bar is empty after about:

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