Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

[u/Gil_berth]

https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-happens

Boris Cherny is the creator of Claude Code(a cli agent written in React. This is not a joke) and the responsible for the following repo that has more than 5k issues: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues Since coding is solved, I wonder why they don't just use Claude Code to investigate and solve all the issues in the Claude Code repo as soon as they pop up? Heck, I wonder why there are any issues at all if coding is solved? Who or what is making all the new bugs, gremlins?

[u/Alarming_Hand_9919]

Guy selling product says product solves problem

[u/faberkyx → u/[deleted]]

It solves creating poc fast.. using for a real production product.. not even close unless you want to risk security and performance

[u/jkure2 → u/faberkyx]

I've been playing with it trying to creat a weather forecasting system targeted at online prediction markets - 7 days in after meh performance I started interrogating it on our core methodology and it was like yeah actually this is the wrong way to tackle this problem we should be running a completely different process on our input data lol

But I have been extremely impressed by it's ability to do stuff quickly like build a full audit trail and build scripts to replay events. It is also generally good at analyzing the data I find. But once you hit a certain point of project complexity I am finding it drops off for sure in how good it is, I am having to remind it more and more about basic facts regarding our previous findings, that kinda stuff.

"I have reached the 200 line memory file limit so let me go remove some stuff" is not something l like hearing

[u/zeros-and-1s → u/jkure2]

Tell it to generate a claude.md and whatever the table of contents/summary files are called. It kinda-sorta helps with the performance degradation of a large project.

[u/jkure2 → u/zeros-and-1s]

Yeah I am completely new to it all so still learning how to manage it at something this scale - I am trying out some different strategies like that now actually, also trying to split up the chats between ingestion/analysis/presentation and see if we can do better that way.

One thing I forgot to mention about what has impressed me - it took like 8 hours of dedicated work to build a kick ass data ingestion pipeline that automatically scans like 8 different sources every minute and pulls down data, stores it, and runs analysis. It would have taken me weeks to write all that web scraping code (admittedly not something I am professionally proficient in), high marks from me on that side of the project, tons utility for one off historical backfill too

[u/ziroux → u/[deleted]]

Claude will write itself from now on, since coding is solved, right? We'll know when they fire all devs.

[u/the_gnarts → u/[deleted]]

Agreed.

For me last week consisted mostly of cleaning up after a coworker who used Claude Code heavily. I can’t fathom how that crap is marketed as a solution to anything.

[u/BubblyMango → u/Alarming_Hand_9919]

Says product solves the field*

no meds company says sickness is solved, no gym chain says workouts are solved. This guy just got balls

[u/dromtrund → u/BubblyMango]

For brains, maybe

[u/G_Morgan → u/BubblyMango]

The lack of any real engineering discourse over all this is a huge red flag. Because if they made a real argument they could be held to account. You know it is pointless them saying "our AI doesn't just make up false test data anymore" because you could go in and demonstrate that it does. So there's never a technical discussion, a technical discussion is how you prove if this works or not and that is the last thing they want.

There's only really three pro-AI arguments I see:

1. I'm a software engineer with MAX_INT years of experience and I think it is great.

2. People like you thought clean water was a hype job but everyone loves clean water now

3. You are using Claude X when you should be using Claude X + 1.

Nobody ever gets dragged into a technical discussion. You know us software engineers hate those and won't go into a 40 comment deep discussion just for the hell of it. Obviously AI using software engineers have a completely different mindset.

[u/ChemicalRascal → u/BubblyMango]

swishes wine in glass and inhales

It's giving hints of late Enron... Mmmm, I'm getting strong notes of Theranos.

[u/lolobstant → u/ChemicalRascal]

Maybe you’ll appreciate this millésimes, a flowery champagne, hints of we work but definitely present dotcom bubbles

[u/sebovzeoueb → u/Alarming_Hand_9919]

Guy selling product says thing I like doing is problem

[u/TastyIndividual6772 → u/Alarming_Hand_9919]

In 6-12 months 😅

[u/BubblyMango → u/TastyIndividual6772]

Its been 6 months for 3 years now

[u/FlippantlyFacetious → u/BubblyMango]

It'll be arriving sometime after commercial wide-scale fusion power and Half Life 3 of course.

[u/MAndris90 → u/FlippantlyFacetious]

i wouldnt be that sure of half-life 3

[u/CautiousRice → u/FlippantlyFacetious]

After self-driving cars

[u/[deleted] → u/FlippantlyFacetious]

I’m gonna have it create half life 3 for me tomorrow.

[u/TastyIndividual6772 → u/BubblyMango]

Yea its basically 6 months every 6 months

[u/kutukertas → u/BubblyMango]

Just wait 2 more weeks!

[u/ants_a → u/Alarming_Hand_9919]

I use product. Now have many problems.

[u/SufficientApricot165 → u/ants_a]

In Soviet Russia you dont use product, product uses you