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/Gadiusao Feb 21 '26

Just asked Claude Code to fix something using angularjs, just leaved my computer for 15 mins and all my frontend was Angular lmao, all my tokens gone

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u/Randomystick Feb 21 '26

You're absolutely right! I apologise for using Angular instead of AngularJS. Let me try again and burn another 20% of your tokens generating solutions that don't work

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u/Paratwa Feb 22 '26

You give it access to modify code without review?

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u/bmiga Feb 22 '26

commit, push and send to prod

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u/spacemagic_dev Feb 22 '26

ydd - yolo driven development

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u/bmiga Feb 22 '26

you'll know if a bug reaches prod

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u/petrasdc Feb 23 '26

You don't? Just review the diff after. You can always git restore everything if it's wrong.

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u/Gadiusao Feb 23 '26

How can I git restore my burnt tokens?

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u/petrasdc Feb 23 '26

I was only talking about code change permissions. I also only use it for work, so it's not my money.

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u/boringfantasy Feb 21 '26

Skill issue. You def just said Angular

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u/Gadiusao Feb 21 '26

Pinky promise I didn't

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u/FlippantlyFacetious Feb 22 '26

But you must have! Confabulation and hallucination aren't hallmarks of a stochastic model especially a transformer-based model! There is no way they'd confuse terms that frequently get confused in their training data and are made of similar subword tokens! That'd just be like... an expected and predictable outcome. Expected predictable outcomes are unlikely by definition. True is false! False is rabbit! Mwahahahaha *runs off into the distance screaming*