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Title: Building Claude Code With Boris Cherny
Authors: The Pragmatic Engineer
Category:articles
Number of Highlights: 2
Source URL: mailto:reader-forwarded-email/5b8b30c8e34b571ce9e3363bfa57b6bd
Date: 2026-03-06
Last Highlighted: 2026-03-06
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8. This is the year of the generalist (and maybe the year of those with ADHD). Borisâs work has shifted from deep-focus single-threaded coding to managing multiple parallel agents and context-switching rapidly. As Boris put it: âItâs not so much about deep work, itâs about how good I am at context switching and jumping across multiple different contexts very quickly.â
9. Fix infra before building a product. Working at Meta, when Boris moved to Instagram, the Python/Django stack was so poor that click-to-definition didnât work and the type checker was broken. He abandoned his original team, and went straight to Dev Infra, leading migrations from Python to the Facebook monolith and from REST to GraphQL. He did this because you canât build great products on a terrible foundation, and sometimes the highest-leverage move is fixing the platform rather than shipping features.
Title: Building Claude Code With Boris Cherny
Author: The Pragmatic Engineer
Tags: TVZ, readwise, articles
date: 2026-04-08
Highlights
- 8. This is the year of the generalist (and maybe the year of those with ADHD). Borisâs work has shifted from deep-focus single-threaded coding to managing multiple parallel agents and context-switching rapidly. As Boris put it: âItâs not so much about deep work, itâs about how good I am at context switching and jumping across multiple different contexts very quickly.â (View Highlight)
- 9. Fix infra before building a product. Working at Meta, when Boris moved to Instagram, the Python/Django stack was so poor that click-to-definition didnât work and the type checker was broken. He abandoned his original team, and went straight to Dev Infra, leading migrations from Python to the Facebook monolith and from REST to GraphQL. He did this because you canât build great products on a terrible foundation, and sometimes the highest-leverage move is fixing the platform rather than shipping features. (View Highlight)