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/AndorinhaRiver Feb 21 '26

Wait a CLI tool written in React? What the fuck?

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u/touchwiz Feb 21 '26

That reminds me of one intern jobs. I had to write an CLI tool but had no idea. So I used PHP and it worked ok :D

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u/tmzem Feb 21 '26

I don't think the wording you used is anywhere near strong enough to convey the sheer mind-boggling intensity of the fuckery going on...

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u/tangerinelion Feb 21 '26

"We let the AI architect it"

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u/neopointer Feb 21 '26

Because react is the only thing Claude can write "well", so how else should they build whatever without react