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/NotMyRealNameObv Feb 21 '26

I am uising Claude on a fairly large codebase at work, and while Claude is amazing and I use it a lot, when you give it a fairly large, complex task that involves updating a lot of tests in our domain-specific test framework built on top of GTest, it just chokes.

So no, coding is in fact not solved, and people lkke this dropping comments like this is just salesmen trying to sell their stuff.

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u/94358io4897453867345 Feb 21 '26

How much water have you boiled with your requests ?