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 $1 billion in December to $2.5 billion in February, Claude Code’s annualized revenue has accelerated in recent weeks, Cherny said, helping https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/anthropic-says-topped-30-billion-annualized-revenue">propel Anthropic’s revenue on that basis to $30 billion.

The growth vindicates Cherny’s decision to return to Anthropic after making a brief sojourn last summer to coding-tool startup Cursor that at the time seemed to give that smaller rival a major boost.

In the months since Cherny came back, Claude Code has shaken up a tech industry that was already enthralled by AI, spawning a new era of AI agents, hastening a decline in software stocks and remaking the jobs of software engineers.