Episode · The Peterman Pod · 2025-12-15

Ryan Peterman & Boris Cherny: books mentioned on The Peterman Pod

Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew

1 book · With Boris Cherny · Listen · Watch on YouTube

Boris Cherny is the Creator of Claude Code but few people know his full career story. I interviewed him about everything he learned growing at Meta and for insights from his time building Claude Code at Anthropic.

Boris Cherny recommended Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and others.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

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   Functional Programming in Scala

   Paul Chiusano; Runar Bjarnason · at 15:40

   Functional Programming in Scala by Paul Chiusano and Runar Bjarnason is a technical guide that teaches functional programming principles and encourages readers to think deeply in types.

   Recommended

   “this is still like the one technical book I would recommend to everyone that has had the greatest impact on me as an engineer is this book called functional programming in Scola and you're probably never going to use schol today, but the way it teaches you to think about coding problems is just such a change”

   Boris Cherny Boris Cherny (Creator of Claude Code) On How His Career Grew 2025-12-15 Listen at 15:40

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