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Claude Code creator Boris Cherny gave three tips for prompting AI. The days of the "prompt engineer" seem to be fading away. Boris Cherny, who created Claude Code for Anthropic, said that there's no need for long, formulaic AI prompts anymore. As models have gotten better, the need to perfect your prompt has diminished, he wrote in a Tuesday X post. "Talk to Claude the way you would a coworker," Cherny wrote. "There's no secret to prompting. There's no need to be overly scaffolded or prescriptive for most tasks. "Not long ago, AI users were passing around their favorite added clauses and sentences to get an AI chatbot to do their bidding. Anthropic's Claude was memed with a common prompting line: "Make no mistakes. "Now, Cherny said that users should prompt the model with three basic things:What you want it to doHow much effort you want it to spendHow it should verify that it did the right thingCherny also shared one of his prompts. It was casual, calling a podcast episode "really amazing" and asking Claude to build an artifact based on it. Claude should "use lots of tokens" and make the visuals better than a New Yorker or New York Times data visualization, he wrote.