The one thing that gets me is - Boris must know what everyone is thinking when he says he merges 300 MR’s per day, but I think everyone knows it doesn’t mean what he’s implying - it just can’t. He can’t read 300 open source contributions per day to determine if they fit into the spirit of Claude Code. Even if he’d fully automated the testing and integration process. And 300 people per day submitting contributions?

He could mean a few other thingsc one would be, he has like 20 version tags and he merges 15 features into each version (does he explicitly say merge to main?)

The other thing he could mean is he has like a software engineering agent and that software engineering agent like loops through GitHub issues and his personal notepad and maybe uses a few different branches to test things out and build I dunno adversarially, running all sorts of experiments.

Which would be genuinely cool! But using Mr’s to say tweak bunch of variables back and forth isn’t what 300 MR’s implies.

But then the ultimate question is - it may be cool to fully automate a software engineering agent, and certainly is the type of research Anthropic and someone of Boris’ stature (and pay level) should be working on. But is it efficient?

I guess yes hems talked about this:

https://karozieminski.substack.com/p/boris-cherny-claude-cod...