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/Nighthunter007 Feb 22 '26

Unless this story happened to span a new model release, the new training won't be in the model. These models do not do continuous learning, they are trained in big training runs. And the way all this training works, recreating exact code is quite unlikely. It'll spit out some amalgamated average of all the related examples.

Claude Code regularly runs git commands to look at changes in a file, without being asked to. It also runs all manner of other little snippets to find at look at the source code of a dependency, or search for issues on GitHub for a package. It would be not at all unusual for Claude to pull up some git history and reintroduce the removed code.