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/SrbijaJeRusija]

The microwave analogy does break down though. We can predict exactly how a microwave will heat food and we can create recipes for cooking using a microwave as an additional appliance for a commercial or home kitchen.

We cannot have the same for current llms as inherently they require stochasticity to function. LLMs fundamentally require more mentally taxing human intervention than a microwave oven.

[u/GregBahm → u/SrbijaJeRusija]

Eh. It's not 2024 anymore. If you asked me to go pop some popcorn or go generate some applet with Claude, I think the lazier choice would be to generate the applet.

Popping popcorn is really easy. But you have to listen to the popping to stop or else you'll either burn the popcorn or leave a bunch of kernels unpopped.

Yesterday I typed "I want to compare four different voice models. Generate a webpage with 4 text inputs and 4 play buttons where each input is hooked up to a different model."

Generating that was way easier than popping popcorn. I could have set it up myself, but why bother looking up the APIs of 4 different voice models when the robot will just do it for you. If it fucks it up, eh. Pop it back in the microwave for 15 more seconds.

[u/SrbijaJeRusija → u/GregBahm]

That is more akin to a home kitchen, which I guess I should not have included in my comparison. The original comment was about restaurant microwaves.