The Secrets of Claude Code From the Engineers Who Built It

At Every, the team credits Claude Code with transforming the way they work.

They now ship to codebases they barely know, each new feature makes the next easier to build, and even non-technical teammates confidently use the terminal.

To explore how this happened, AI & I host Dan Shipper invited Claude Code’s creators—Cat Wu (@_catwu) and Boris Cherny (@bcherny) from Anthropic AI—to discuss what they’ve learned from building one of the most beloved AI engineering tools in the world.

This episode is a must-watch for anyone—technical or not—who wants to understand how to use Claude Code like the people who built it.

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Timestamps:

00:00:00 - Start

00:01:26 - Introduction

00:02:25 - Claude Code’s origin story

00:07:03 - How Anthropic dogfoods Claude Code

00:14:06 - Boris and Cat’s favorite slash commands

00:15:49 - How Boris uses Claude Code to plan feature development

00:21:53 - Everything Anthropic has learned about using sub-agents well

00:26:16 - Use Claude Code to turn past code into leverage

00:33:14 - The product decisions for building an agent that’s simple and powerful

00:36:38 - Making Claude Code accessible to the non-technical user

00:45:12 - The next form factor for coding with AI


Links to resources mentioned in the episode:

Cat Wu: https://x.com/_catwu?lang=en
Boris Cherny: https://x.com/bcherny
Claude Code: https://www.claude.com/product/claude...