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Boris Cherny: Building Claude Code

Fresh off the launch of Opus 5, Claude Code creator Boris Cherny joins Diana Hu at Startup School 2026 to talk about what the newest models can do, how Claude Code came to be, and what it means to build products when the underlying capabilities keep accelerating.

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  Chelsea Finn: This is the State of the Art in Robotics

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  Peter Steinberger: "Fun Is Velocity"

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  Max Hodak: How Startups Build Speed

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  How To Design In The Agent Era

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  Garry Tan: Own Your Intelligence

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  Building the First Data Centers in Space

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  Waymo Co-CEO Dmitri Dolgov: "Move Fast And Ship Safely"

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  Patrick Collison: "What If You Succeed?"

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  Jeff Dean: The 1% Rule for Building in AI

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  Alexandr Wang: “This is a Once-in-a-Civilization Opportunity”

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  Blake Scholl: Breaking the Supersonic Ban

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  Sam Altman: "Never a Better Time to Do a Startup"

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  Jensen Huang: The Mindset That Built NVIDIA

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  World Models, Explained

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  How To Better Understand Your Users