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. If you found this episode interesting, please like, subscribe, comment, and share. Want even more? Sign up for Every to unlock our ultimate guide to prompting ChatGPT here: https://every.ck.page/ultimate-guide-.... It’s usually only for paying subscribers, but you can get it here for free. To hear more from Dan Shipper: Subscribe to Every: https://every.to/subscribe Follow him on X:   / danshipper   Build your first AI-powered app at [ai.studio/build](http://ai.studio/build). 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...