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Claude Code Creator Says 22-Year-Old CS Grads Should 'Go Start a Startup': 'It's the Golden Age'
'There has never been a better time in history to do it; it's the golden age,' Anthropic's Boris Cherny said.
TL;DR
- AI tools like Claude Code enable entrepreneurs to build and scale companies more effectively.
- Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, believes this is a 'golden age' for starting startups.
- At Y Combinator, Cherny observed that many founders use AI to write a significant portion, often 50-100%, of their code.
- The rise of AI coding agents is creating unprecedented opportunities for new startups.
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman believes founders who deeply understand users are now as valuable as those with strong technical coding skills.
- Cherny predicts a 100-fold increase in the number of people writing or using agents to write code, though the title 'engineer' might evolve.