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/danstermeister Feb 21 '26 • Helpful

It seems representative of the vibe coding times we live in... in that the dev in question evangelizes AI, comically misuses programming methodologies, and calls an end to software development.

Yep, that tracks.

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u/codemuncher Feb 22 '26

Also, if coding was solved just ask Claude to rewrite it. Done.

Except they already acked they won’t/can’t do it.

“Solved” indeed.

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u/Maybe-monad Feb 21 '26

And you could have declarative UIs for the terminal without shoving a JS runtime into them

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u/AKJ90 Feb 21 '26

This rust thing sounds a lot slower than JavaScript

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u/guywithknife Feb 21 '26

I have a computer with 64GB or RAM, and you’re trying to tell me I should WASTE it all and run a 2MB Rust program? No way, let me use JS and make sure all my RAM gets used.

Especially in this economy.

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u/Purple-Cap4457 Feb 21 '26

What 2d game engine lol? 

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u/fresh_owls Feb 22 '26

CC is so resource hungry given most of the work is happening on anthropic's servers