Anthropic's Claude Code Creator Reports Managing Tens of Thousands of AI Agents Daily
Boris Cherny, head of Anthropic's Claude Code, stated at Fortune Brainstorm Tech that he now manages anywhere from hundreds to tens of thousands of AI agents daily, a dramatic shift from managing single instances a year and a half ago. Claude Code has evolved to use sub-agents that prompt other Claude instances, with the system now writing code autonomously and performing its own security reviews. Cherny compared the impact to the printing press and acknowledged recursive self-improvement as a significant risk that Anthropic is taking seriously.
At the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen, Boris Cherny described a fundamental shift in how AI coding assistants are being deployed at Anthropic. Rather than developers manually prompting Claude Code in individual terminal windows, the system now operates with multiple layers of AI agents that coordinate with each other, with some days involving management of tens of thousands of agents simultaneously. Cherny noted that Claude Code has increased code production at Anthropic by 8x since the beginning of the year and is now capable of autonomous action, including reviewing its own security and identifying new features to build. He drew parallels to the printing press's transformative societal impact, suggesting AI coding assistants could unlock similarly profound innovation by lowering barriers to software creation. Cherny acknowledged significant risks, particularly around recursive self-improvement—where AI systems could autonomously design and improve their successors—describing it as "one of the big risks for AI."
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The article does not provide specific details about what safeguards or oversight mechanisms Anthropic has implemented to manage the risks of recursive self-improvement and autonomous AI agent coordination that Cherny acknowledged.
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Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says there are days he manages tens of thousands of AI agents at once
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