A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! @bcherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developing one of the most transformative coding tools of the AI era.
00:00 Intro
01:45 The most surprising moment in the rise of Claude Code
02:38 How Boris came up with the idea for Claude Code
05:38 The elegant simplicity of terminals
07:09 The first use cases
09:00 What’s in Boris’ https://t.co/OAtnXdxccP?
11:29 How do you decide the terminal’s verbosity?
15:44 Beginner’s mindset is key as the models improve
18:56 Hyper specialists vs hyper generalists
21:51 The vision for Claude teams
23:48 Subagents
25:12 A world without plan mode?
28:38 Tips for founders to build for the future
30:07 How much life does the terminal still have?
30:57 Advice for dev tool founders
32:11 Claude Code and TypeScript parallels
35:34 Designing for the terminal was hard
37:36 Other advice for builders
40:31 Productivity per engineer
41:36 Why Boris chose to join Anthropic
44:46 How coding will change
46:22 Outro
I'm Boris and I created Claude Code. I wanted to quickly share a few tips for using Claude Code, sourced directly from the Claude Code team. The way the team uses Claude is different than how I use it. Remember: there is no one right way to use Claude Code -- everyones' setup is different. You should experiment to see what works for you!
@lennysan@pmarca@a16z It’s always insightful to listen to @pmarca putting tech development into historical context. @lennysan does a great job asking about AI, founders, agi and even movies.
@AriEmanuel@patrick_oshag Great conversation with @AriEmanuel on being relentless even if you are the stupidest Emanuel. Events, content, agents & dyslexia.
@jasonfried@lexfridman The fortune is equally distributed! If you had not taken a chance on a 37signals superfan from Copenhagen back in 2001, it's entirely possible none of this would have happened. A quarter of a century later, it's literally been the delight of a lifetime to work together.
Q3 2024 Shareholder Update → https://t.co/fvAaI97WoA
— Highlights
- Produced our 7 millionth vehicle at Fremont factory!
- Preparations for new vehicles remain underway (including more affordable models), which we'll begin launching in the first half of 2025
- Record gross margin for @teslaenergy
- COGS (cost of goods sold) per vehicle came down to lowest level ever – key to enabling affordability
Vehicle
US @tesla_na
- Refreshed Model 3 ramp continued successfully
- @cybertruck production increased sequentially & achieved a positive gross margin for the first time (congrats @cybertruck 🫡)
- Preparation of the Semi factory continues and remains on track with builds scheduled to start by the end of 2025
China @Tesla_Asia
- Giga Shanghai produced its 3 millionth car & exported its 1 millionth car
Europe @teslaeurope
- As of Q3, Model Y is the bestselling vehicle of any type in 2024 in Sweden 🇸🇪, Netherlands 🇳🇱, Denmark 🇩🇰 & Switzerland 🇨🇭
Thank you to our owners!
AI/Hardware @Tesla_AI
- In Q3, we released FSD Supervised 12.5, bringing improved safety & comfort thanks to a 5x increase in the number of parameters, data & training compute (will continue to scale in Q4)
- We also released Actually Smart Summon & deployed FSD Supervised to @Cybertruck, including end-to-end driving on highways for the first time
- Compute rules everything around us: We're already training on a 29k H100 cluster at Giga Texas – expecting to have 50k H100 capacity by end of October
Vehicle & other software
- Summer Release shipped with features like Parental Controls, YouTube & Amazon Music as native apps, Hands-Free Frunk, added weather forecast & other improvements
Powertrain, Battery & Manufacturing
- Unveiled Cybercab & Robovan at our We, Robot event in October – both purpose-built for autonomy from the ground up
- Cybercab will be built on our next-gen platform, which includes a new powertrain with an estimated 5.5 mi/kWh – our most efficient one yet
- Produced our 100 millionth 4680 cell & continue to progress our dry cathode manufacturing lines
Energy @teslaenergy
- Megafactory in Lathrop demonstrated 200 Megapacks/week (40 Gwh run rate) @Tesla_Megapack
- Powerwall deployments reached a record for the 2nd quarter in a row
- As of Q3, over 100k Powerwalls were enrolled in VPP programs!
This is crazy. Working optimuses, 20 robotaxis, unsupervised FSD and a Robovan. All of them available for public testing. Unreal product launch day! Congrats @Tesla@elonmusk