Inside Claude Code: Building for the Model, Not the Moment

WOW Mentor breaks down the strategy of Boris Cherny, the engineer who turned a terminal chat app nobody asked for into Claude Code and, with it, rewrote how developers work. He built the whole product on three principles — build for the model six months out rather than today's, never bet against the model, and chase latent demand — resting the entire thing on accident and iteration. Keep scaffolding minimal, rules short, and judgment humble, he argues, and simply trace the exponential toward a world where coding becomes a solved problem for everyone.