--- title: Boris Cherny: Stop Hobbling Your AI | daily.dev description: Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, shares insights on 'unhobbling' AI models — the idea that current models have untapped capabilities that products and... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/boris-cherny-stop-hobbling-your-ai-lhwptswbs twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Boris Cherny: Stop Hobbling Your AI | daily.dev og:description: Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, shares insights on 'unhobbling' AI models — the idea that current models have untapped capabilities that products and... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/boris-cherny-stop-hobbling-your-ai-lhwptswbs og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LhwptSwBS.png og:image:alt: Boris Cherny: Stop Hobbling Your AI og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Boris Cherny: Stop Hobbling Your AI **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 35 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, shares insights on 'unhobbling' AI models — the idea that current models have untapped capabilities that products and over-specified prompts actively prevent. Key points include: Opus 5's ability to run autonomously for days or weeks without scaffolding, resistance to prompt injection via mechanistic interpretability, deletion of 80% of Claude Code's system prompt because the model no longer needs it, and the concept of 'product overhang' (unrealized model capabilities). Practical advice includes giving models harder tasks with high-level descriptions rather than step-by-step instructions, using dynamic workflows to orchestrate thousands of agents, and rebuilding system prompts empirically after each model release. Real-world examples include rewriting Bun's Zig codebase to Rust in 11 days and using Claude routines to autonomously maintain codebases daily. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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