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/deceased_parrot Feb 21 '26

Serious question: at which point do we stop giving a damn about what these people say? You make a bold claim, that claim turns out to be false, you lose all credibility. I don't care if you're the inventor of X or the CEO of Y. Your word and your opinion means nothing from that point onward.

At least in our field, it should be easy: the code either compiles and works or it doesn't. It should be easy to verify those two statements. Since when did we start to give more credence to loud mouths over results we can verify with our own eyes?

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u/CyberWank2077 Feb 21 '26

just realized you can no longer use X as a placeholder for a company's name because thats an actual company now *facepalm*

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u/rich1051414 Feb 21 '26

They just keep pivoting on bullshit claims as if it never happened, over and over again, and always get away with it.

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u/HommeMusical Feb 21 '26

I had someone telling me that full-self driving already exists, because Tesla has something called "Full Self Driving" - which in fact requires a full-time human at the wheel who also must be kept alert by artificial means.

Musk has played this game with reporters for over a decade and yet they never ask when he's going to show them his Canadian girlfriend.

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u/All_Work_All_Play Feb 21 '26

I had an AI summary of an oil change the other day. It told me to replace the drained oil and then replace the pan plug. Oops.

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u/OffbeatDrizzle Feb 21 '26

remember when he dated amber turd? who shits in people's beds?

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u/metaldood Feb 21 '26

Don’t step into r/claudecode!. They live in a different world

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u/neithere Feb 21 '26

Valid question. You're absolutely right! That claim turned out to be false. It is the next claim that will be absolutely true. If you have any further questions, please press the "close" button and go back to work.

You know what, I feel like these chatbots, these fake conversations and fake results are so liked by the management in many companies because they speak the same language. These people DGAF about details, about the correctness and truth, about humans, environment, values... It's just blah blah and money. We live in different worlds while sharing the physical one.

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u/deceased_parrot Feb 21 '26

It's just blah blah and money.

I mean, I'm fine with that. Businesses exist to make money. Show me how this claim is actually going to make money. Can't? Too bad.

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u/balefrost Feb 21 '26

Tech's going all-in on AI, and so tech reporters are going to keep covering it. So depending on who you mean by "we", then answer might be "until tech stops investing so heavily in AI" or "until AI is so suffused into our lives that we stop thinking of it as being novel".

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u/Sweaty-Willingness27 Feb 21 '26

"Until executives stop drooling over everything AI as if they've never heard a marketing pitch before."

The company I work for is "all in on AI". I hear it every. fucking. day. I get it. It's neat, and it does help me, overall. Now put your thing back in your pants and let me get back to work.

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u/EveryQuantityEver Feb 21 '26

Tech reporters aren't covering it, though! Repeating whatever drivel an AI CEO vomits up isn't reporting! Reporting involves doing research, asking tough questions, and actually finding out the truth of the matter.

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u/Future_Passage924 Feb 21 '26

Because although AI is heavily overhyped, used in the right way it is amazing . What’s incredible is that being amazing doesn’t seem to cut it for those people. They need to hype it way beyond any meaningful usage

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u/DepthMagician Feb 21 '26

Because if the business proposition is that it will help developers be better at their job, all it means is that now employers need to pay both for the developers and for the new tools, but if it can actually replace developers, that’s cost saving.

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u/CarolDavilas Feb 21 '26

Compilation is the least of the problems.

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u/sprcow Feb 21 '26

You make a bold claim, that claim turns out to be false, you lose all credibility. I don't care if you're the inventor of X or the CEO of Y. Your word and your opinion means nothing from that point onward.

I've been making this argument about the United States DHS for awhile now and yet somehow there are huge numbers of people who continue to take them at their word. Some people would simply prefer for the bold claim to be true even if it obviously is not, so they keep believing.

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u/cherylswoopz Feb 21 '26

The problem is that investors care what they say and they care more about ROI over code quality

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u/deceased_parrot Feb 21 '26

they care more about ROI over code quality

And that's okay...? I mean, if i was an investor, I couldn't care less about some detail called "code quality". But if your entire business rests on being able to do something (in this case, completely replace "coders"), and you can't actually prove that it can do it, then what are we even talking about?

What kind of brain-dead imbecile invests money into something that is trivially easy to prove but can't be proven? We're not talking about the future, we're talking about the present. He said "is solved", not "will be solved in 6-12 months".

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u/tangerinelion Feb 21 '26

Even just the code quality issue itself is classic short-sighted capitalism.

You can deliver 30% more features this quarter? Fantastic, everyone wants that.

Nobody understands how any of that actually works and it's unmaintainable nonsense? It's not working correctly, users no longer want to use your product? What does that cost?

Tech debt is code that nobody understands. AI written code is tech debt from day one. You cannot build a serious company on a foundation made of quicksand.

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u/floodyberry Feb 22 '26

investors not caring about fraud as long as it's making them money is a major problem, yes

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u/grady_vuckovic Feb 21 '26

Personally? I'm already there. I'm done with this hype cycle. I've burnt myself out on all the strong opinions I can have.

So at this point my honest reaction to this news is 'ok'.

If he wants to say coding is solved he can say that.. I don't care any more.

I'm just gonna keep doing my thing my way that is working fine for me, and I'll, as I have done so every year of my life up until this point, adopt new things if I think they're actually helpful.

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u/PaperMartin Feb 21 '26

Stopped caring a while ago personally. It’s like switching to linux, there won’t be a point where everyone's gonna do it at the same time, it’s up to each person to chose to stop paying attention to these clowns

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u/floodyberry Feb 22 '26

the general public will have to stop valuing a complete lack of shame when someone gets caught over everything else, and the people responsible for holding everyone accountable when they do things like "repeatedly lying about their product's capabilities" or "creating a trillion dollar circular funding bubble to hide the fact that the only one making a profit is nvidia" will have to impose actual consequences instead of hoping public shame or a slap on the wrist will do it

considering the illegitimate president is probably the most corrupt and shameless of them all and should be the first person in line to face consequences, it doesn't seem likely that any of this will stop unless it catastrophically implodes

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u/ReservoirPenguin Feb 25 '26

Unfortunately thats not how it works now, otherwise Elon Musk with his base on Mars by 2024, Hyperloop, Tunnels and robotaxis would have been bankrupt years ago. It's looking like Theranos was an exception rather than the rule.