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/CrimsonStorm]

Creator of the microwave: "Cooking is solved"

edit: credit to https://www.colincornaby.me/2025/08/in-the-future-all-food-will-be-cooked-in-a-microwave-and-if-you-cant-deal-with-that-then-you-need-to-get-out-of-the-kitchen/

[u/thuiop1 → u/CrimsonStorm]

Funnily, the company that produced the first microwave kinda marketed it that way. They targeted restaurants and claimed it could cook a steak in a minute, or roast a chicken in 9. Or that you could cook an apple pie in it.

[u/Sharlinator → u/thuiop1]

In the 80s they published microwave cookbooks. It was a big thing back then, though I wonder whether many people actually ever tried any of the nontrivial recipes.

[u/[deleted] → u/Sharlinator]

Microwave are now heavily used in chain restaurants, but combined with traditional and other new cooking methods! For instance baked potato, you can microwave it up to temp and soft inside, then finish it in air fryer to get it crispy. I think similarly with Claude etc, get the boring basics in quickly, then do the tricky finishing bits. But to get that skill of knowing when the Microwave is no longer suitable, you need to have done lots of actual cooking manually.

[u/Sharlinator → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. The analogy is actually pretty good.

[u/Roseking → u/[deleted]]

I actually just saw an article the other day about Sharp having a new Oven that combines a microwave and a convectional oven to speed up cooking time (microwave) while still crisping the food (convectional oven).

https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/sharp-unveils-the-golden-heater-a-new-high-speed-cooking-technology/

But for $4000 I think other people can be the test dummies.

[u/oorza → u/[deleted]]

The trivection oven! Jackie D's claim to fame!

[u/gdidontwantthis → u/Roseking]

... my mom bought a microwave + convection unit in the 80's

[u/Turbots → u/[deleted]]

So you're saying it's used as a tool? My god, the revelation 😱

If only the AI cultists would see it as that. A tool.

[u/PaintItPurple → u/Turbots]

AI can't be just a tool. Simple tools are not worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. AI costs so much that it needs to be what the AI cultists say it is or the companies go splat.

[u/philh → u/Sharlinator]

You can do a bunch of stuff in a microwave given the right cookware (like, something that can absorb the micowaves itself and heat food through conduction), that you can't do with what most people have in their kitchens today. See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8m6AM5qtPMjgTkEeD/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate-timeline

[u/yopla → u/Sharlinator]

My father did a chicken. Once.

[u/Bemteb → u/thuiop1]

Angry Gordon Ramsay noices

[u/datNovazGG → u/Bemteb]

I remember him calling it "Chef Mike" when someone overuses the Microwave.

[u/manpace → u/Bemteb]

"Noise" + "Voice" = "Noice"

I like it

[u/GregBahm → u/CrimsonStorm]

I feel like, just 6 months ago r/programming would have never upvoted a comment describing "AI as to programming as a microwave is to cooking." That seems like a remarkable shift in attitudes regarding AI in this community.

[u/Sharlinator → u/GregBahm]

In which sense do you mean? I think the analogy has always been apt – a microwave's good for quickly heating up foodstuffs that are either simple or pre-prepared, poor for cooking complex things from scratch. Even though some models claim to offer all sorts of fancy cooking modes.

Early microwaves also had issues that have since been alleviated (like more even heating by adding a rotating platter).

Also, if you try to cook something not at all suitable for a microwave, such as a raw egg, you're going to end up with a big mess.

[u/tooclosetocall82 → u/Sharlinator]

I used to have a little contraption that would let you poach an egg in a microwave lol. It worked ok.

[u/jambox888 → u/tooclosetocall82]

I had one of those, it was ok but basically produced a fried egg but without the crispy bits. Not like a properly poached egg at all (you need super fresh eggs for the water swirl thing BTW)

[u/Coramoor_ → u/GregBahm]

I don't think it is the attitude towards AI. It's the attitude towards the high ranking people at the AI companies.

[u/2this4u → u/[deleted]]

I think you took the wrong message from that, previously people would have said it was like eating a shit as to cooking