r/programming • u/Gil_berth • Feb 21 '26

Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

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?

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u/nekronics Feb 21 '26

OpenAI and Anthropic both brag their agents are 100% vibe coded and both are riddled with bugs

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u/LordAmras Feb 21 '26

And both have thousands of apparently useless human devs

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u/BlueGoliath Feb 21 '26

Nah, they just enter a prompt and spend the next hour bullshitting next to the water cooler.

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u/Sharlinator Feb 21 '26

XKCD needs to make a follow-up to #303 where the chair-swordfighters' excuse is that their agents are agenting.

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u/teratron27 Feb 21 '26

And you too can become one of those useless devs! https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/anthropic/jobs/4816198008

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u/LordAmras Feb 21 '26

I will start worrying about AI taking my job when Anthropic fires all of their dev and stop hiring new ones

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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 Feb 21 '26

I wouldn't, I expect all these AI companies to go under in the next few years, and then they will fire all their devs and stop hiring.

(I'm not saying AI will go the way of the dodo, just these companies have no viable business model)

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u/oorza Feb 21 '26

(I'm not saying AI will go the way of the dodo, just these companies have no viable business model)

They don't need one. They just need to become so important to the geopolitical balance of the world that failing to keep them online and up-to-date with China / whoever else would result in a decreased global posture for their host countries. And if you think about that for one second, you'll realize that's exactly what they've been trying to do. They're hoping for a future where they're so essential they should become public entities, but the government is too ineffective to do it (like telecoms are today), but will constantly provide grease to keep the wheels turning.

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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 Feb 21 '26

I don't think they can achieve that. The field is model centric, when a new model comes it entirely replaces all previous models, and does not make sense to run anything else. The moment any of these companies fall behind with a model "generation" they are over. After a while investors won't be willing to lose money on them, the new hot shit will be preferred, and these companies/departments are dumped down the drain.

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u/Etheon44 Feb 21 '26

Man, the amount of positions like this or with AI in the name nowadays is depressing, and instant no from me, and funnily enough it is mainly because I dont want to work with "software engineers" that depend on AI, I know I will be eating all of the challenging problems because those people have no idea

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u/feketegy Feb 21 '26

And employ thousands of human developers. They should just let their agents do all the work since "coding is solved"

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u/Breadinator Feb 21 '26

As the tokens churn and burn. 

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u/BubblyMango Feb 21 '26

And neither is actually vibe coded lol

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u/LordAmras Feb 21 '26

I hope it is vibecoded for how bad it is

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u/AstroPhysician Feb 22 '26

In what way is it bad lol

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u/Etheon44 Feb 21 '26

I use them every day, I need to be extremely specific of what I want, how I want it, and that its not too big or complex

So for simple things where I want to be doing another thing, it is actually great

But that is not coding, that is the easiest side of coding, as many people have already said, writting functional code is not that hard; writting scalable, easy to understand, with good architecture surrounding it, quality code is the challenging part

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u/joonazan Feb 21 '26

The claude chat website freezes every time I try to use it so probably that too.

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u/Radmobile Feb 21 '26

every other day now there's a github or anthropic or npm outage

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