Boris Cherny

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Y Combinator Startup Podcast · Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

So there's these kind of waves of it.

I think these will kind of like come and go.

I think the skill nowadays is less about prompt engineering and more about figuring out how do you give quad a hard task that seems a little bit too hard?

And then how do you make it possible for quad to verify its work along the way?

And the verification, I think, is probably the single most important thing that people do not get right, largely.

One example of this is people were, you know, we have this desktop app for Cloud, and it's built using Electron.

We've made it quite fast, so now it's like a pretty awesome experience.

Six months ago, it was like sluggish, and it wasn't very reliable.

Now it's pretty awesome, and you know, it's the thing that most of the team uses.

As an experiment though, I wanted to see like, what would it feel like if it was native?

And so what I did is I started a quad tag session, and quad tag is just, you know, it's a new product we have, it's just quad running in Slack.

My first question was, hey tag, do you have access to a macOS runner on GitHub?

And it said no, and then I hooked up a runner, so it was able to start a Mac virtual machine using GitHub.

And then my second question is, I created this empty code base that was a cloud desktop app rewritten in Swift.

And I asked, can you access this code base?

It said no.

And then I gave it access and I was like, okay, great, now I have access.

And then I was like, okay, now what I want you to do is I want you to rewrite the Electron app in Swift

I want you to run the Electron app in the Mac virtual machine, screenshot it, and then look pixel by pixel, compare it to the Swift version.

Don't stop until you're done.

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