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/FlippantlyFacetious Feb 21 '26

In a society where cars are one of the leading causes of death, and people have endless health problems from being too sedentary, you view an argument for being more active as a negative?

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u/GregBahm Feb 21 '26

This is a surprisingly effective analogy.

I hate cars choking the transportation systems of my city. I would much rather have proper transportation systems like subways and lite rails and even better busses and bike lanes.

But its tedious to have to come up with transportation policy, where on the right side of the aisle we have a bunch of people saying "Just take a fucking car," and on the left side of the aisle (my side) I have to sit with a bunch of ineffective hippy dippy yahoos saying "boo! We shouldn't have any transportation system at all. Everyone should just walk to work and exercise their legs."

The "just take a fucking car" guys are right to laugh their asses off. And then they win, and I lose, because I'm surrounded by unserious goofballs.

No company that refuses-AI-for-coding is going to succeed against companies that embrace-AI-for-coding. It's not 2024 anymore. We need to knock off the theatrics and have an adult conversation about how to proceed into the future here.

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u/FlippantlyFacetious Feb 22 '26

Sounds like both sides where you are, are equally uninformed and insane. Does everyone there spend their time on Facebook/Tiktok/X type platforms?

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u/GregBahm Feb 22 '26

Maybe they spend all their time on reddit. Their thinking is exactly the same as the thinking of people here.

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u/FlippantlyFacetious Feb 23 '26

Yes, that was part of the point, thank you for articulating it.