Boris Cherny ships 30 PRs a day from his phone. his actual words: he hasn't typed code by hand in 2026. the title software engineer is going away. it's just "builder" now. most engineers heard "we're obsolete." it's not what he said. his framing: > coding is solved when your agent stack actually works > the bottleneck moved from typing to orchestration > the winners are the ones who can wrangle agents > the losers will blame the model builders need infrastructure. that is what nobody is telling you. I spent 11 days putting an HTTP proxy on 14 Claude Code setups. 34% of every token bill burned on plugins fighting each other before Claude generated a single useful output. one setup ran 7 PostToolUse fires on a single Edit. 7x the tokens. developer thought the model was "running slow." it wasn't. the gap between you and Boris isn't talent. it isn't tokens. it's the 30 lines in his settings.json that yours doesn't have. 3-line lock-file fix in the article. open it. coding may be solved. your settings.json is not.