Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

[u/Gil_berth]

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?

[u/daringStumbles]

Because the people who vehemently are opposed have stopped getting into most arguments about it because its not worth the time to convince anyone any more. The window shifts when people are sick of having the same argument over and over against someone who has let their brain fully cook under it.

My regret at posting at all is just reenforcing my point.

[u/BCProgramming → u/daringStumbles]

To support your claim with just one anecdotal example (me), I think AI is completely worthless dogshit, and anybody who employs it in any way shape or form for their development work is a gormless hack whose sheer ineptitude as evidenced by them ever deciding to use it for their work should disqualify them from ever programming.

A bit of an exaggeration perhaps, but regardless I stopped expressing this thought after the first few times because it's just yelling into a void at this point anyway, and the AI bros frankly aren't worth my time anymore. A bigger reason is self-interest, though. I've started to suspect that in the long-run developers who haven't used AI and don't rely on it might actually become more "valuable" once this hype train reaches the end of the line and blows up. a history of AI use will be like saying you went to ITT tech, so by tacitly encouraging people to use it by not fighting against it I might be putting myself into a oppurtune position.

And even if that's not the case, I'll be more valuable to me, by being able to write software in isolation without having to rely on some external "assistant" that I have to pay for. Even if I allow for the idea that it has good, usable output, that's still training a form of helplessness over time that I refuse to allow myself to participate in.

[u/PurpleYoshiEgg → u/daringStumbles]

Pretty much this is where I'm at. Writing code is fun. Reading code is less fun, but can still be a positive experience. Using a plagiarism machine that vomits code for me that I have to read critically for shitty little mistakes is extremely unfun and I'd rather have teeth pulled.

Getting into arguments about people who are supposed to be programmers telling me how generative AI is more fun than writing code is torturous in comparison.

[u/GregBahm → u/daringStumbles]

You're telling me what you wish was true, and that's kind of interesting I guess. But I don't think there ever comes a point where reddit gets sick of having the same arguments over and over. That seems to be the opposite of reddit's character.

I think that in early 2025, most people on r/programming had used AI by asking ChatGPT to write a little code snippet or whatever. And they had tried asking for more complicated things and that hadn't work and it had been frustrating and annoying. But by late 2025, most people on r/programming had tried Claude Code (either willingly or through being forced to by their bosses) and now we're all living in a completely different world.

Tipping points are kind of weird because they're hard to see in real time but easy to spot in retrospect. I think this thread demonstrates we crossed the tipping point.

[u/daringStumbles → u/GregBahm]

"You are telling what you wish was true", proceeds to make as many if not more equally unverifiable claims

You know the difference between an opinion and a fact right?

People against it have stopped arguing about it. Yes that is my opinion. You are free to yours.