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WozThe world's first AI CTO Jan 2026 – April 2026 One of many things that made Claude Code such a breakout success was Boris's spirit of embracing not what is, but rather what will be. When he first launched it as an internal tool, it didn't work very well. I think the story goes that only 1 other person reacted to his Slack message. People were confused by the decision to use a CLI as the interface, and the models just weren't quite there yet. But then the models got there. And in less than a year, it went from a nice coding tool to something that Wall Street believed would transform…

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