--- title: Boris has some really good advice | daily.dev description: A developer commentary on a post by Boris, one of the original creators of Claude Code, about how experienced engineers should embrace the AI coding era. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/boris-has-some-really-good-advice-iemleir3i twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Boris has some really good advice | daily.dev og:description: A developer commentary on a post by Boris, one of the original creators of Claude Code, about how experienced engineers should embrace the AI coding era. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/boris-has-some-really-good-advice-iemleir3i og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/iEMLeir3i.png og:image:alt: Boris has some really good advice 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 has some really good advice **[Theo - t3․gg](https://daily.dev/sources/t3dotgg)** · 19 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer commentary on a post by Boris, one of the original creators of Claude Code, about how experienced engineers should embrace the AI coding era. The core argument is that skills engineers built around automation, environment setup, and system design are now more valuable than ever. With AI agents doing more of the coding, the highest-leverage work is building the infrastructure, lint rules, CI pipelines, agent configuration files (claude.md), and tooling that steers agents toward correct behavior. This multiplies output across entire teams, not just individuals. The video also argues that encoding domain knowledge as automation rather than keeping it in people's heads is the new path to senior/staff-level impact. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Claude Code creator says developers will become builders. 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