Boris Cherny is an engineer and the creator of Claude Code who leads the Claude Code team at Anthropic. Boris Cherny's Twitter Score is 456 out of 1000 (an Excellent rating) as of October 2026, ranking #422 (top 0.1%) among 493,668 tracked accounts.
Boris Cherny works at Anthropic as head of Claude Code, the AI-powered agentic coding assistant developed by the company. He has spoken publicly about Claude Code at Anthropic's Code with Claude conference, and has discussed how the tool is being used to build internal preview products such as Cowork, an Anthropic tool aimed at non-coders. A Claude Code release previously exposed internal source code due to a packaging issue caused by human error, with Anthropic confirming that no sensitive customer data or credentials were involved.
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