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A very special guest on this episode of the Lightcone! @bcherny, the creator of Claude Code, sits down to share the incredible journey of developing one of the most transformative coding tools of the AI era. 00:00 Intro 01:45 The most surprising moment in the rise of Claude Code 02:38 How Boris came up with the idea for Claude Code 05:38 The elegant simplicity of terminals 07:09 The first use cases 09:00 What’s in Boris’ CLAUDE.md? 11:29 How do you decide the terminal’s verbosity? 15:44 Beginner’s mindset is key as the models improve 18:56 Hyper specialists vs hyper generalists 21:51 The vision for Claude teams 23:48 Subagents 25:12 A world without plan mode? 28:38 Tips for founders to build for the future 30:07 How much life does the terminal still have? 30:57 Advice for dev tool founders 32:11 Claude Code and TypeScript parallels 35:34 Designing for the terminal was hard 37:36 Other advice for builders 40:31 Productivity per engineer 41:36 Why Boris chose to join Anthropic 44:46 How coding will change 46:22 Outro

These pages of history are stuck together 🚨 Israel’s former Finance Minister ousted Bibi Netanyahu when he tried to Extend a Special Tax Haven Law for Hollywood Mogul Arnon Milchan — A Thank you for Arnon’s role in once Smuggling Nuclear Tech for Israel Yes… we are finally going there.. 🔻 Arnon Milchan is an Israeli billionaire (net worth ~$6.4B as of 2026), Hollywood film producer (over 130 films including Pretty Woman, Fight Club, L.A. Confidential), and literally a former Israeli intelligence operative. Milchan was benefiting from Israel's "Milchan Law" (Amendment 168, 2008), which gave new/returning residents a 10-year tax exemption on foreign income. As the exemption neared its end, he sought to extend it to 20 years. He pushed Netanyahu to extend this law to pay less in taxes… a tax law that benefits only few. Netanyahu went on to urge his Finance Minister to extend the tax law. He refused. In Netanyahu's ongoing corruption trial (Case 1000), prosecutors allege Milchan gave the Netanyahu family hundreds of thousands of dollars in luxury gifts (cigars and champagne) over years. In return, Netanyahu tried to push changes to extend or enhance the tax breaks for Milchan (and others). Milchan testified he discussed his tax issues with Netanyahu. Netanyahu denies any quid pro quo. 🔻THE MOTHER OF ALL ADMITTANCES ON NATIONAL TELEVISION In a 2013 interview on Israel's Channel 2 program Uvda, Milchan publicly admitted for the first time that he worked for ~20 years (1960s–1980s) as an operative for LAKAM (a secretive Israeli agency). He helped procure arms, technology, and materials—including krytrons (nuclear triggers)—to support Israel's nuclear weapons program. He said he did it "for my country and I'm proud of it," describing the risky work as serving Israel like a real-life James Bond. Clip rumble.com/v77ptwm-netany… The Bibi Files tuckercarlson.com/the-bibi-files…