Claude Code: Anthropic's Agent in Your Terminal — Boris Cherny & Cat Wu (Latent Space)
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The Latent Space episode where Claude Code's lead engineer Boris Cherny and PM Cat Wu lay out the design philosophy. Memorable lines: 'Claude Code is not a product, it's a Unix utility', 'do the simple thing first' (memory is just a markdown file, not a vector store), and the disclosure that 80-90% of Claude Code's own code is written by Claude Code. The clearest articulation of why the harness is opinionated and minimal — and why that opinionation is the product.
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