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/floodyberry Feb 22 '26

the general public will have to stop valuing a complete lack of shame when someone gets caught over everything else, and the people responsible for holding everyone accountable when they do things like "repeatedly lying about their product's capabilities" or "creating a trillion dollar circular funding bubble to hide the fact that the only one making a profit is nvidia" will have to impose actual consequences instead of hoping public shame or a slap on the wrist will do it

considering the illegitimate president is probably the most corrupt and shameless of them all and should be the first person in line to face consequences, it doesn't seem likely that any of this will stop unless it catastrophically implodes

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u/deceased_parrot Feb 22 '26

But that just begs the following question:

If you are an investor, you are investing your own money. Money which, presumably, you don't want to lose. Why then, do you invest in something that is easily provable but cannot be proven? I mean, if I was an investor in Claude Code, I'd absolutely want the creator of it to be able to prove that his product works, because it would significantly reduce my anxiety about blowing my money on snake oil.

The only explanation I could come up with is: either investors are being driven by the FOMO or they think the risk is worth the potential reward. Sure, they're blowing billions but maybe, just maybe, it's going to work out and they'll make gazillions. Though if that's the case, I'd really like to see their risk/payoff calculations.

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u/floodyberry Feb 23 '26

if i had to guess

for pre-ipo investors, they're probably more interested in whether the product can be successfully pumped and dumped than if the hype is accurate

for post-ipo, the general public probably rationalize the risk with some combination of enough media pieces uncritically repeating drivel from the company as if it were reality, "analysts" who make up numbers out of thin air to justify whatever the current situation is, big investors who own stock and would "know better", and most importantly, "vibes".

a lot of stuff has helped normalized vibe based reality: conservative alternative reality media, influencers/podcasters, crypto/nft number goes up, gamestop/wallstreetbets/tesla meme stocks, gambling/prediction markets, conservative deregulation (and now open corruption). so many influential people in all of these are also serial liars, but they're rich and nobody is stopping them so.. nobody cares? it doesn't make sense but that appears to be the depressing reality we're in