Boris Cherny
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 28 Jul
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What if we get rid of all the scaffolding and just give the model the simplest possible harness so it can write an entire file at a time and build an entire feature?
And that was kind of it.
That was the product overhang of the time.
The model was capable of doing something and everything was just kind of getting in the way.
I think that nowadays, with modern models, there is so much product overhang that I'm not seeing startups capture.
And I think there's people thinking about these problems, but there's just a huge amount of opportunity to elicit these behaviors from the model that are just amazing and interesting and commercially valuable.
So there's a couple of things that I will think about.
One is you should give the model slightly harder tasks than what you think you can do.
I think a really common mistake that I see is people are using Claude code, they're using Claude, and they just give it way overly specific instructions.
They're like, I want you to do this, but I want you to do it in this way, this way, this way.
You must do one, then two, then three, then four.
And for modern models, that's actually really not the way to do it.
You want to go a little bit higher level.
You want to describe the task.
You want to describe the guardrails.
You want to describe the exit criteria.
And then just go with the model cook and come back in a little bit.
And I think it'll surprise you.
And again, this is just not something that would have worked six months ago, but it does work today.
Yeah, so okay, one example is the model can now rewrite essentially any code base from one language to a different language.
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