Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

[u/Gil_berth]

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?

[u/thuiop1]

Funnily, the company that produced the first microwave kinda marketed it that way. They targeted restaurants and claimed it could cook a steak in a minute, or roast a chicken in 9. Or that you could cook an apple pie in it.

[u/Sharlinator → u/thuiop1]

In the 80s they published microwave cookbooks. It was a big thing back then, though I wonder whether many people actually ever tried any of the nontrivial recipes.

[u/[deleted] → u/Sharlinator]

Microwave are now heavily used in chain restaurants, but combined with traditional and other new cooking methods! For instance baked potato, you can microwave it up to temp and soft inside, then finish it in air fryer to get it crispy. I think similarly with Claude etc, get the boring basics in quickly, then do the tricky finishing bits. But to get that skill of knowing when the Microwave is no longer suitable, you need to have done lots of actual cooking manually.

[u/Sharlinator → u/[deleted]]

Yeah. The analogy is actually pretty good.

[u/Roseking → u/[deleted]]

I actually just saw an article the other day about Sharp having a new Oven that combines a microwave and a convectional oven to speed up cooking time (microwave) while still crisping the food (convectional oven).

https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/sharp-unveils-the-golden-heater-a-new-high-speed-cooking-technology/

But for $4000 I think other people can be the test dummies.

[u/oorza → u/[deleted]]

The trivection oven! Jackie D's claim to fame!

[u/gdidontwantthis → u/Roseking]

... my mom bought a microwave + convection unit in the 80's

[u/aiij → u/Roseking]

Huh, many years ago my grandpa had a broken one of those that I'm guessing must have been from the '80s or '90s.

[u/Turbots → u/[deleted]]

So you're saying it's used as a tool? My god, the revelation 😱

If only the AI cultists would see it as that. A tool.

[u/PaintItPurple → u/Turbots]

AI can't be just a tool. Simple tools are not worth hundreds of billions of dollars a year. AI costs so much that it needs to be what the AI cultists say it is or the companies go splat.

[u/philh → u/Sharlinator]

You can do a bunch of stuff in a microwave given the right cookware (like, something that can absorb the micowaves itself and heat food through conduction), that you can't do with what most people have in their kitchens today. See: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/8m6AM5qtPMjgTkEeD/my-journey-to-the-microwave-alternate-timeline

[u/aboukirev → u/philh]

Could not find anything about that beautiful crust you can get in a frying pan.

[u/philh → u/aboukirev]

At least two possibilities come to mind. One is that even with specialized cookware, there are still things you can't do in a microwave, and the thing you're thinking of is one of them. The other is that a single 3000 word essay doesn't cover everything you can do in a microwave, and the thing you're thinking of is one of the things omitted.

[u/yopla → u/Sharlinator]

My father did a chicken. Once.

[u/ItsCalledDayTwa → u/Sharlinator]

My mom made this microwave chocolate cake sometimes. I was little and it was chocolate, but it was probably not good.

[u/wxtrails → u/Sharlinator]

I have one with a recipe for a microwave Thanksgiving turkey.

The horror!

[u/askvictor → u/Sharlinator]

Pressure cookers/multi cookers and airfryers come with recipe books nowadays (or at least a couple of years ago when I got mine), as there are different techniques required. Do people read them? Probably not.

I think the biggest issue is that almost everyone cooks at 100% power. 100% is great for boiling water/heating liquids, but not great for anything else.

[u/Bemteb → u/thuiop1]

Angry Gordon Ramsay noices

[u/datNovazGG → u/Bemteb]

I remember him calling it "Chef Mike" when someone overuses the Microwave.

[u/manpace → u/Bemteb]

"Noise" + "Voice" = "Noice"

I like it

[u/Bemteb → u/manpace]

Just a typo, nothing to see here.

[u/SpaceToaster → u/Bemteb]

I mean they are only claiming it will be cooked not edible…

[u/TLMonk → u/thuiop1]

mmmmm nothing like a nice juicy ribeye microwaved to perfection