
Boris Cherny, the creator of Claude Code, recently shared his personal workflow — and the idea at the center of it is one that serious AI builders keep arriving at independently: the model that wrote the code should not be the model that reviews it. Boris achieves this with subagents running in fresh, isolated contexts. The Chief Engineer workflow achieves it with a separate model entirely. The structure is the same. The only philosophical difference is whether 'independent reviewer' means a...