Boris Cherny manages tens of thousands of agents everyday. Eight months without writing a line of code, and even the prompts He created Claude Code. Fortune asked what his job looks like now. You run one Claude Code and it has subagents that are other Claudes. His words, the user is no longer prompting Claude, another Claude does the prompting. He wakes up and Claude has already acted on ideas it picked by reading GitHub or X or anything else. Claude Code writes itself, writes its tests, runs its own security review, proposes its own improvements. 8x more code written at Anthropic since January. Asked about recursive self-improvement, he called it one of the big risks for AI. The person who built it said that. What he is describing is a job where you build the harness the agents run inside, then read what comes out. Everything upstream of that went to another Claude. Full breakdown in the article below