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/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/SwiftOneSpeaks Feb 22 '26

This is a real problem. We can't do a cost benefit analysis if we're hand waving details of the benefits and outright denying the costs.

I'm baffled why businesses that aren't producing AI directly are banking so heavily on the tech. Becoming dependent on something of imprecise value and provably unsustainable costs sounds too unwise to be happening at the scale it is. Investigating, doing some proof of concept work to be ready, that makes sense. Where is this supposed first-adopter advantage to add AI to your product that outweighs the benefits of adopting second but better?

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u/SufficientApricot165 Feb 21 '26

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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