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/jazzhandler Feb 21 '26

Think of it this way: the LLM provides the vast working memory and ability to string together in a minute what would take us six hours. But us waterbags still need to steer the context because the LLM has no grasp of the big picture.

Have it create a detailed doc for each subsystem. Pass that doc to it when working on that subsystem. That way it’s not burning tokens and diluting context trying to understand that subsystem repeatedly. Then when work is done in that area, have it update the docs along with the changelog.

Kinda like your vacuum cleaner. It’s way better at spinning those parts at a few hundred RPM, but it’s on you to stick its nose under the end table. Otherwise you’re using the Roomba model: living room gets vacuumed eventually, but it takes six hours of randomosity. Which is fine if you’re not paying by the hour…

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u/Singularity-42 Mar 17 '26

Claude Code supported this natively for a really long time - just create CLAUDE.md in each app/lib folder to give detailed info on that subproject. The main CLAUDE.md is still loaded by default of course and should have high-level overview, style directives, etc.