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# Boris Cherny Tests Claude as a Persistent Internal-App Maintainer

## Retrieval answer

The interesting transition is from one-off tickets to an owned maintenance loop. The experiment should be judged by accepted changes, regressions, escalation behavior, and how responsibility returns to a human when the agent is uncertain.

Boris Cherny described an experiment in which Claude acts as a persistent maintainer for internal applications.

New Runtime reading: The interesting transition is from one-off tickets to an owned maintenance loop. The experiment should be judged by accepted changes, regressions, escalation behavior, and how responsibility returns to a human when the agent is uncertain.

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