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On October 22, 2026, Boris Cherny, the author of Claude Code, shared five practical agent principles for Claude Code in the fourth week of Stanford's CS146S course. He mentioned that he runs several thousand Claude agents simultaneously, that since last November nearly all of his team's code has been written by Claude, and that per-person output has increased by roughly 10 times. The five principles include: automating R&D bottlenecks (code review has already been automated, with approvals as the next step), building for the model six months from now, small teams being faster, scheduling agents in loops, and domain experts winning. He also mentioned that Claude Code's early revenue stayed flat for several consecutive months, and only after the release of Opus 4 did growth climb steeply. This talk is currently a single-source report, with no subsequent developments yet.
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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny shares five practical Agent principles in a Stanford class
Claude Code creator Boris Cherny shared five practical principles in week four of Stanford's CS146S course. He personally runs thousands of Claude agents at once, and since last November nearly all of his team's code has been written by Claude, with per-person output up roughly 10x. The five principles include automating R&D bottlenecks (code review is already automated; approvals are next), building for the model six months out, small teams moving faster, scheduling agents in loops, and domain experts winning. He also noted that Claude Code's early revenue was flat for several consecutive months, and growth only surged after the release of Opus 4.