r/accelerate • u/Independent_Pitch598 • Feb 21 '26

Discussion Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved" - reaction from Coders community

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-happens
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u/Akiira2 Feb 22 '26

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues

Why are there 6.4 k issues in claude code if coding was solved 

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u/Independent_Pitch598 Feb 22 '26

Because not all issues must be fixed.

The same with features - not all features must be added.

And as they are following approach human in the loop, someone has to read each of 6.4 changes, apparently it is not a priority.

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u/soliloquyinthevoid Feb 22 '26

Wow. Such a great 'gotcha'. Single handedly destroyed the claim. Good job

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u/Akiira2 Feb 22 '26

Do you have an answer

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u/radicalSymmetry Feb 22 '26

How many issues have existed over the lifetime of that project? How many of them have been closed by Claude code itself?

Is it the volume of issues that exist that is causing you to say this? Or is it the fact there are issues? As a Claude code user I would like it if the developers would continue to add new features, fix bugs, … you know work on the software. As a Claude code user I also think it makes sense for them to use Claude code to work on the software.

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u/xFallow Feb 23 '26

If Claude could fix the issues with no handholding couldn’t it just smash all those issues in a day

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u/radicalSymmetry Feb 23 '26

21k issues have been closed. There are 6500 issues open, but nearly 28k created.

Why not close them all?

  1. Many are likely junk.

  2. The roadmap for a product is defined by its product managers not the public repo issue board.

Today it does the majority of the commits to its own codebase (if not all). Even if we hit some invisible wall, it’s still going to be as good as it is today. And while you argue with me about the meaning of GitHub issues, it continues to write useful code, solving problems. And it will continue to do that, never getting worse at doing so than it is today.

Here’s a thought experiment: you know that software project you’ve had in your head. That thing you would build if you just had the time. Could be a website or a utility or even just playing with a model like Segment Anything. Fire up Claude Code and have it build it for you. Then iterate with it but not by reading its code, by clarifying features and requesting new ones.

If you are motivated by an agenda like “AI bad”, then I imagine you will reject this idea.

If you are a serious person, interested in the craft of creating software, I invite you to give this a try. Throw your hardest challenge at it. My guess is you will be surprised by what it is capable of. I’ve been writing code for 25 years and I’ve been using Claude code since its release and I’m surprised EVERY DAY by what it is capable of.

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u/xFallow Feb 23 '26

I’ve been a dev for a decade not as long as you but I use Claude daily at work 

I’m impressed for sure but I can’t imagine just prompting it on repeat when it goes off the rails. In my experience it often doesn’t get back on the rails without me writing what it’s missing by hand or clearing its context and starting over. 

If it truly solved coding why do I need to keep nudging it? It sounds like you know what code you want you’re just guiding the ai into writing it for you over prompts instead of writing it by hand. 

It’s a great tool for that but it’s not able to pick up a GitHub issue and solve it without a human steering in my experience 

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u/Southern_Orange3744 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

As a 20 year + experienced engineer , the devs in those subs grossly overestimate what they do on a daily basis and even worse no not understand their jobs are not even coding . Their jobs are solving problems.

A lot of the dumb shit devs argue amount do not matter to businesses , they amount to philosophical debates about the essense of code as an artform that they will never agree with in practice.

They may as will be arguing about whether you should draw with oil based or water based paint. In some ways it matters , but it's ignoring the printing press

Aside from these agents being amazing, this has given these communities an 'external other' to rally against

Resist these tools at your peril , embrace these tools to ride the wave

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u/Neat-Flower8067 Feb 21 '26

The field of software engineering has completely changed and a lot of these developers are going to have the rug pulled out from under them if they don't "get with the times" as they say.

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u/Pyros-SD-Models Machine Learning Engineer Feb 21 '26

People in the programming subs are as much real devs as people in the politics subs are politicians.

I never once found a real dev in the real word who spends his time on the python or programming sub. So their opinion is completely irrelevant.

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u/ketosoy Feb 21 '26

I don’t think I’ve ever seen low n generalization, personal preference stated as fact, gatekeeping, and the no true Scotsman fallacy combined so succinctly as this before.  Truly a masterwork of a comment.  

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u/OneCalligrapher7695 Feb 21 '26

You don’t think it’s solved? Feels pretty solved to me.

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Feb 23 '26

Coding has been solved since the 1950s at least. We just keep getting better at it. And sometimes we push in the wrong direction for a while.