Boris Cherny
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-62638bfe2e29 - Type:
person - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: Cherny
Description
Anthropic engineer who publicly acknowledged the 1M context + cache miss cost problem during The Register cache-TTL coverage. Confirmed that a 400k default for Claude Code's context window is under investigation.
Key claims
- UI asymmetry reflects internal-vs-external trust asymmetry
- Adaptive thinking allocated zero reasoning tokens on fabrication turns
- 'Fucks chart' is a real cohort metric, not an Easter egg
- 'Coding is solved' rhetoric clashes with multi-leak + CVE history
Relations
- Fucks Chart --[owns]--> Boris Cherny
- v2.1.20 Transparency Crisis --[related_to]--> Boris Cherny