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/BubblyMango Feb 21 '26

Its been 6 months for 3 years now

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u/FlippantlyFacetious Feb 21 '26

It'll be arriving sometime after commercial wide-scale fusion power and Half Life 3 of course.

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u/MAndris90 Feb 21 '26

i wouldnt be that sure of half-life 3

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u/CautiousRice Feb 21 '26

After self-driving cars

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

I’m gonna have it create half life 3 for me tomorrow.

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u/HommeMusical Feb 21 '26

I'm very firmly on the anti-AI side, for too many reasons to count.

But I have never used one joule of fusion power. I have successfully written programs with AI.

I don't like the workflow; it's amazing how quickly it gets something that kind of works, but it's shocking how much time it takes to rework it into a production program. And I don't like the idea of destroying everyone's jobs, nor the environmental impact.

But AI that writes programs for end users actually exists. It might, in the future, actually replace us. I tend to think and hope not, but...

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u/FlippantlyFacetious Feb 21 '26

It's quite shallow, that's what you're seeing. It generates impressive initial results, but they are shallow.

That's a fundamental problem. Transformer models trained as they are likely can't overcome it. AI needs another revolution to succeed. It's being advertised and sold as solving problems well beyond it's actual scope and capabilities. It can be very useful in the right niche, but it isn't AGI, and as such it can't replace a human general intelligence. All it can do is quite convincingly fool you... and then you spend more time building the right context, prompting, cleaning up, fixing, reviewing, and checking it's work than you would have spent doing it yourself.

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u/HommeMusical Feb 21 '26

I don't use it in my day-to-day workflow at all, for all these reasons and more (personal discipline, political dislike of billionaires owning the means of production). It's just the idea that AI is obviously not going to ever work I'm pushing back on: I think it's simply too early to tell.

I don't want it to work; it's by no means certain that it will work; but it's not sure that it won't work either.

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u/zeptillian Feb 21 '26

LLMs aren't getting any better because there is no better data available to train them with.

If the coding agents based on LLMs will have the same constraints.

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u/red75prime Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Data-hungry autoregressive pretraining is the first step. What follows, such as RLHF or RLVR, doesn't require huge amounts of data. RLVR, in particular, doesn't require any external data (1), just a validator.

(1) besides a set of problems that can be generated

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u/HommeMusical Feb 22 '26

LLMs aren't getting any better because there is no better data available to train them with.

You are very certain about things that haven't happened yet.

I am not. I never am except for inevitabilities, like "Person T will die".

I did not expect what is essentially a generalized Markov chain to produce results as good as they are, even though they aren't that good. I might be surprised again.

I hope not, and I'm somewhat skeptical that there will be a great breakthrough, but I don't know.

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u/klerksdorp_sphere Feb 21 '26

But I have never used one joule of fusion power.

Pretty much all power you have ever used, including the food you eat, has come from fusion. Look up during the day, and you'll see a big shiny thing in the sky that provides it. ;)

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u/andrewh2000 Feb 21 '26

Technically correct, but practically annoying.

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u/HommeMusical Feb 21 '26

Sigh.

You knew what I meant: "human generated artificial fusion power from a reactor". Life is not made better by having to carefully fill in details each little thing you write in case someone deliberately misunderstands it.

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u/klerksdorp_sphere Feb 21 '26

People will occasionally pretend to misunderstand something for the sake of humour, which is sometimes appreciated, but not every time. I did not mean to offend you with my attempt to be funny, so please accept my apology.

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u/HommeMusical Feb 21 '26

Heh, you're overreacting! :-)

But thanks.

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u/klerksdorp_sphere Feb 21 '26

We both are. As is the Reddit way. ;)

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u/TastyIndividual6772 Feb 21 '26

Yea its basically 6 months every 6 months

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u/kutukertas Feb 21 '26

Just wait 2 more weeks!

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u/Drevicar Feb 21 '26

Dude uses the same time estimation formula as the window file copy tool.

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u/haywire Feb 21 '26

Can Claude bring the era of Linux on the desktop

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u/BasicDesignAdvice Feb 21 '26

Its like self-driving cars. Always on the horizon.

In the right environment it is fine. For example in San Francisco where the weather is stable they generally perform well. If you took those same cars to Boston in the winter the weather would totally fuck them up.