{"id":52901,"date":"2026-05-27T17:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/52901\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:16:09","slug":"claude-code-creator-tells-cs-grads-go-start-a-startup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/52901\/","title":{"rendered":"Claude Code Creator Tells CS Grads: ‘Go Start a Startup’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Anthropic’s Boris Cherny<\/a> has a simple message for the 22-year-old computer science graduates looking to figure out what’s next.<\/p>\n

“If you want to work at a company, you can totally still do that \u2014 there are entry-level jobs, there’s a lot you can do,” Cherny told tech journalist Casey Newton during a recent episode of Newton’s “Platformer” podcast. “But if you’re at all entrepreneurial, go start a startup.”<\/p>\n

Thanks to AI tools like Claude Code, which Cherny created, entrepreneurs can build and scale their companies like never before.<\/p>\n

“There has never been a better time in history to do it; it’s the golden age,” he said. “You and your agents can build a giant company.”<\/p>\n

Cherny told Newton that he had recently spoken with the latest batch of founders at Y Combinator, the famed Silicon Valley incubator once led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman<\/a>. Instead of asking founders whether they used Claude Code, Cherny said he asked for a show of hands of how many founders let Claude Code write “100% of their code.”<\/p>\n

“These are the most cutting-edge startups \u2014 usually a few people each \u2014 and half the hands went up,” he said.<\/p>\n

In contrast, Cherny said, when he asked the same group how many of them don’t have the model write any of their code, “out of a couple hundred people, one hand went up.”<\/p>\n

“Everyone else was somewhere between 50% and 100%,” he said. “So coding is getting solved for a bigger and bigger percentage of the code we write.”<\/p>\n

Cherny’s broad advice aligns with the growing chorus in tech, which sees the rise of AI, especially coding agents, as offering unprecedented opportunities for the next generation of startups.<\/p>\n

“For a long time, I think the most important ingredient that I looked for \u2014 YC looked for, that kind of this part of our industry looked for on a founding team \u2014 was technical talent,” Altman said recently. “And that’s still very important, but now people who just really deeply understand their users and can’t code at all. I want to fund those people.”<\/p>\n

As for the future of software engineering<\/a>, Cherny said, while the title of engineer may change, the broad work of people writing code or using agents to write code will not.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think we’re going to call them engineers,” he said. “But if we talk about people writing code or using agents to write code, I think there will be 100 times more of them than there are today. That’s my prediction.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anthropic’s Boris Cherny has a simple message for the 22-year-old computer science graduates looking to figure out what’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2069,492,53,3154,8515,182,31189,5189,532,31191,8504,31188,16313,31190,20491,17881,14411,2315],"class_list":["post-52901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-agent","tag-ai-tool","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-boris-cherny","tag-claude","tag-claude-code-creator","tag-code","tag-company","tag-cs-grad","tag-engineer","tag-few-people","tag-founder","tag-golden-age","tag-hand","tag-long-time","tag-newton","tag-startup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}