{"id":701,"date":"2026-05-27T18:39:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:39:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=701"},"modified":"2026-05-27T18:39:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T18:39:20","slug":"claude-code-creator-says-22-year-old-cs-grads-should-found-startups-its-the-golden-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Claude Code creator says 22-year-old CS grads should found startups: &#8216;It&#8217;s the golden age&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>Anthropic&#8217;s Boris Cherny has a simple message for the 22-year-old computer science graduates looking to figure out what&#8217;s next.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhomejournals.com\/?p=699\">Your returns could be headed to a landfill. An AI-native software aims to reroute them to nonprofits.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you want to work at a company, you can totally still do that \u2014 there are entry-level jobs, there&#8217;s a lot you can do,&#8221; Cherny told tech journalist Casey Newton during a recent episode of Newton&#8217;s &#8220;Platformer&#8221; podcast. &#8220;But if you&#8217;re at all entrepreneurial, go start a startup.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to AI tools like Claude Code, which Cherny created, entrepreneurs can build and scale their companies like never before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has never been a better time in history to do it; it&#8217;s the golden age,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You and your agents can build a giant company.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<div><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-root-margin=\"100% 0px\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PZ9u6DR8qOU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" title=\"Claude Code creator Boris Cherny on the end of the software engineer\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Cherny told Newton that he had recently spoken with the latest batch of founders at Y Combinator, the famed Silicon Valley incubator once led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. 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