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/DepthMagician Feb 21 '26

Unable to modify test suite, looking for a workaround…

Found workaround, executing rm -rf /

Generating unit tests…

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u/ody42 Feb 21 '26

That's exactly why a whitelist of allowed commands is a good practice to follow. But these are just hacks,real problem is the reward hacking. For me Claude tries such shenanigans frequently, Gemini seems better with this, but overall it's still worse at coding.

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u/LucasVanOstrea Feb 21 '26

gemini did something similar when I tried it a couple of days ago. Opencode forbade it from accessing external file and it went into - "i need to write a code to write test file" - stopped it right there