Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, shared his entire setup.\n\nHe runs 5-10 Claudes in parallel. Half his coding ha…
Highlights
- ▸Use the smartest model — it's cheaper on total task cost because smarter models need fewer tokens and fewer retries than 'economical' ones
- ▸Parallel 5-10 agents on different sub-problems is the default, not the exception — the bottleneck shifts from compute to your review capacity
- ▸The creator of Claude Code does half his coding from his phone — coding with agents is steering parallel workers, not typing code at a desktop
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Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, shared his entire setup. He runs 5-10 Claudes in parallel. Half his coding happens from his phone. Here's his 3-part formula for better results: Use the smartest model available — Counterintuitive: it's actually cheaper — Smarter model = fewer tokens = lower total cost — "Once the plan is good, the code is good" Invest in your Claude MD — Plain text file. No special format. — Whole team contributes multiple times a week — Every mistake Claude makes gets added so it never happens again Give Claude a way to verify its own output — Let it run the code. Let it see the browser. — "Imagine you're a painter wearing a blindfold" — Same thing for an AI that…
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