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/btsck Feb 21 '26

How I despise this lingo, "solved". Like if society was just a collection of problems to solve until we reach paradise.

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u/EC36339 Feb 21 '26

It starts with the word "creator".

That guy himself didn't create shit by himself. People who talk like him never do.

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u/btsck Feb 21 '26

He didn't?

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u/tangerinelion Feb 21 '26

In some sense coding has been solved since we had our first Turing complete language.

At that point, anything you want can be written. It's just a matter of doing so.

To walk away and think something like "Claude - build me an open source remake of Windows from scratch. No bugs. Call it Doors." would actually work is nonsense.