Anthropic's Boris Cherny: Production Code by Claude Needs Guardrails
In a quote shared by Simon Willison, Boris Cherny of Anthropic stated that production code written by Claude should meet a higher bar than human-written code. He detailed Anthropic's guardrails, including lint rules, tests, Claude-driven end-to-end tests, daily fuzzers, automated code and security reviews, and automated refactoring, warning that without these, code can become a maintenance mess.
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Simon Willison
Production code written by Claude should have a higher bar than if it was written by a human. At Anthropic, we have many guardrails in place to make sure this is happening: lots of lint rules, lots of tests, Claude-driven end to end tests, Claude-powered fuzzers running daily, automated code reviews and security reviews, automated code refactoring, and so on. Without these, you can end up with a mess that is hard to maintain down the line. — Boris Cherny Tags: claude , ai , claude-code , llms , coding-agents , ai-assisted-programming , generative-ai , agentic-engineering , boris-cherny