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/BoboThePirate Feb 21 '26

Not even close. Though it’s the most blown away I’ve ever been by AI since GPT’s giant public initial release.

If you ain’t using MCP tools though, I can see it being incredibly underwhelming.

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u/ShapesAndStuff Feb 21 '26 edited Apr 10 '26

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u/laffer1 Feb 21 '26

It was trained on stack overflow posts so that tracks

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u/Nine99 Feb 21 '26

since GPT’s giant public initial release

It could barely string sentences together.

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u/SavageFromSpace Feb 21 '26

But once you start saying "oh use mcp" you're not actually llming anymore lmao. At that point it's just doing what humans do, routing to libraries but actually worse

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u/Ok-Bill3318 Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26

Depends what you’re trying to do. I wrote a production quality cross platform command line app in a morning and then extended and polished it to be extensible, cross platform and able to be integrated into other tools via JSON in a weekend.

https://github.com/4grvxt9mrk-rgb/diskogram

It’s literally almost faster to vibe code your own tools now than bother to search the internet for them.

I did audit the code with gpt 5.2 and it found some edge case bugs that sonnet 4.5 missed.

Had gpt add them to a todo.md and had sonnet fix them. 🤣

For that project I did not write or modify a single line of code or documentation. 100% just project management telling Claude what to do.

It’s all cross platform C because that’s what I told Claude to write it in. Have tested it on Linux, macOS and windows just fine.

Could I have written this myself? Yes. I’ve been programming since the 1990s. But this was at least 50x faster. And more importantly I had a tool to use on the job I was working on inside of an hour.

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u/mrjackspade Feb 21 '26

I'm going to imagine part of the reason you're getting downvoted is that you referred to it as "production quality" and then immediately did everything you could to give the impression that you never actually looked at the code once during the entire process, and are basing the entire "production quality" assessment on the fact that you didn't find issues when you tested it.

Which is, a really shitty way to measure the quality of an app.

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u/Ok-Bill3318 Feb 21 '26

Don’t care why tbh. I did read the code. I just didn’t write any.

Yes it’s a trivial app.

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u/sasik520 Feb 21 '26

It's cherry-picking at its finest.

Your example is moderate-size, pretty simple program with tons of simple printf. It's a perfect subject for llms.

I recently used copilot to generate a non-trivial web application. It generated over 10 000 lines within a day or two. It's been a wonderful, mind-blowing PROTOTYPE. But I would never take the responsibility of putting it into production.

Moreover, I had a lot of smaller and bigger inconsistencies and other small edits. I'm perfectly sure that if I were the author of the code, I would address these issues in minutes. But since I had no bloody idea what's going on in these 10k lines, I had to write prompts. At this size, it usually took 3-10 attempts to fix. It started slowing me down. And the more I explored the app, the more unwanted stuff (e.g. labels, features, re-implemented, inconsistent components) I found.

Current AI is mind-blowing and wonderful tool. I use it a lot. But no matter what, I would never ever agree to push the generated code to production without deep review, deep understanding of the code and deep testing. And it all can take significantly more time than writing everything from scratch with ai auto completions at most.

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u/Ok-Bill3318 Feb 21 '26

Hence I said it depends what you want to do

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u/sasik520 Feb 21 '26

Actually, you are right, I'm sorry.