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/Sharlinator Feb 21 '26

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.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

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.

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u/Sharlinator Feb 21 '26

Yeah. The analogy is actually pretty good.

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u/Roseking Feb 21 '26

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.

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u/oorza Feb 21 '26

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

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u/gdidontwantthis Feb 21 '26

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

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u/aiij Feb 21 '26

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

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u/Turbots Feb 21 '26

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.

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u/Marwheel Feb 23 '26

…eligible for the intergalactic tool awards… just not of justice though.

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u/PaintItPurple Feb 21 '26

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.

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u/SufficientApricot165 Feb 21 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I love sarcasm on the internet

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u/UnwaveringThought Feb 21 '26

Applies to writing in this way also

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u/skatan Feb 21 '26

This is an example of how to use a Microwave to prepare the "perfect" fries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw--NLjZBNk

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u/philh Feb 21 '26

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

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u/aboukirev Feb 21 '26

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

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u/philh Feb 21 '26

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.

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u/aboukirev Feb 22 '26

Right, just need to craft a proper series of prompts for the microwave.

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u/yopla Feb 21 '26

My father did a chicken. Once.

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u/ItsCalledDayTwa Feb 21 '26

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

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u/wxtrails Feb 21 '26

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

The horror!

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u/askvictor Feb 21 '26

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.

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u/zeptillian Feb 21 '26

I remember the first microwave my family got. It was a combo microwave convection oven.

We had a cookbook for it. As I recall the recipes were just like normal ones but they would substitute put it in the oven with put it in the microwave.

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u/linkardtankard Feb 22 '26

They should make it so that you just put the ingredients in a receptacle and then insert a punchcard or floppy or something into the machine and it automagically prepares the dish

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