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# Boris Cherny

## Profile
The lead of the **Claude Code** project at [[entity-anthropic-d1|Anthropic]].

## Source Claim
Cherny reportedly has not personally written code in months, having shifted entirely to a **specification and review** role — embodying [[concept-spec-quality-bottleneck|the spec-quality-bottleneck shift]] and operating somewhere between Level 3 and Level 4 of the [[framework-5-levels-vibe-coding|5 Levels framework]].

## Verification
No public statements from Cherny confirm that he has stopped writing code. Treat the specific claim as illustrative anecdote rather than verified fact. See [[claim-claude-writes-claude]].