@technooptimist: Claude Code Inventor Boris Cherny: "Do you see in the future building software becoming a skill like I know Microsoft Office?" "Oh my God, yes, yes, yes. I think it's going to be even more than that. I think it's going to be, I don't know, it's going to be a skill like, yeah, like I know how to send a text message." "In tech history, there's one thing which I think to me is the clearest parallel for what's happening right now. And this is in the 1400s, the printing press. Before the printing press, essentially 10% of the European population was literate. They were often employed by kings and lords that were not literate. And their job was to read and write." "And in the 50 years after the first printing press, there was more literature published in Europe than in the thousand years before. And over the same period, the cost of literature, the cost of a book went down like 100x. Over the next few hundred years, literacy globally went up to like 70%." "I think the thing that's about to happen, and it's going to be much faster than 50 years, is software will be a thing that is fully democratized, that anyone can do. The best person to write accounting software, I think maybe even today, is not an engineer. It's a really good accountant. Because they know the domain really well, and coding is the easy part. It's knowing the domain that's the hard part. And I think this is just obviously the future." — Boris Cherny of @Claude interviewed by Sequoia partner Lauren Reeder at AI Ascent 2026 #claudecode #anthropic #sequoia #borischerny #ai

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