Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, who says engineering is ‘dead,’ says he is getting sick of vibe coding

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• “vibe coding” The word that stuck everywhere Boris Cherny didn’t want it to “Vibe coding” “gut feeling medicine.” “agentic engineering” Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, says coding is ‘solved,’ the vocabulary hasn’t caught up “solved” Anthropic’s Boris Cherny has spent the past several months telling anyone who’ll listen that software engineering is a dying profession, that IDEs are next to go, and that at Anthropic—the company he helps run—no one has touched a line of code manually since at least November.
• Now the Claude Code creator has a new grievance: the word everyone uses to describe what he actually does all day.Cherny told Business Insider on Wednesday, at Anthropic’s Code with Claude conference in San Francisco, that—the term that has become shorthand for AI-assisted programming—is starting to grate on him.
• He’s already begun asking Claude for alternatives.was coined by OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy in early 2025. It caught on...