Boris Cherny

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

So it's kind of getting to this, to being solved for more and more kinds of code.

And that's kind of cool.

When I think about the people that are the best at using Quad, I think there's a certain mindset that you can bring that's really effective.

And it's really about being empirical.

So forget all of the things that you learned about past models.

Forget everything that you learned about computer science theory in class.

look at the model, try to do a task, see where it struggles, and then based on that, adjust.

So it's just very much become, it's not a theoretical science, it's become an empirical science.

So I think people that are really good at this, that are really good at kind of forgetting their priors, letting go of this maybe idea that didn't work before and just being open to trying it again, this is the kind of skill that's just very, very successful now.

So for me, I learned computer science practically.

I learned it by teaching myself to code in order to solve problems.

Whenever I was doing this, I was doing it to solve a particular problem that I had.

So I actually first learned to code on TI-83 calculators.

This was back in middle school.

I ended up actually writing a guide on the internet for programming TI-83 calculators.

It's still up on the internet somewhere.

And it was basic.

That was my first language.

And I learned how to program on calculators so I could just get better at my math tests by cheating on the test.

So it was about something practical.

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