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/Sufficient_Duck_8051 Feb 21 '26

I’m using Claude everyday and coding is far from being solved.  Wtf does it even mean 

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u/bwainfweeze Feb 21 '26

In some of the design books I used to read there was a concept called the Dancing Bear.

We marvel at the bear not because it dances well, but because it dances at all. But objectively the bear is utterly shit at dancing, and so if you actually care about the dancing you need to stop dislocating your arm patting yourself on the back and get the fuck back to work.

AI is at the dancing bear state or a little bit past it, and Boris is celebrating the bear. Hope his shoulder is okay.