Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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Six months ago, Boris Cherny uninstalled his IDE. He hadn't opened it in a month.

Boris Cherny, Creator of Claude Code at Anthropic, joins Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, hosts of the Acquired Podcast, live on stage at Acquired Unplugged — an intimate founder event presented by WorkOS.

They cover:
• How Claude Code started
• Why the step changes in output always came down to the model, not the product
• The death of the IDE and what "coding" even means now
• How Cowork was built in 8 days, entirely using Claude Code
• Why "product taste" as a human advantage is also going away