How a Self-Taught Programmer Became the Father of Claude Code

Boris Cherny, the head of Claude Code, almost parted ways with Anthropic for good last summer. Instead, he has helped shape the coding agent into a megahit that has closed the distance with rival OpenAI. Claude Code has supercharged Anthropic’s growth. After rising from $1B in December to $2.5B in February, Claude Code’s annualized revenue has accelerated in recent weeks, Cherny said, helping propel Anthropic’s revenue on that basis to $30B.