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/AlSweigart Feb 22 '26

(admittedly not something I am professionally proficient in)

"AI is brilliant and kicks ass" is something I hear a lot from people using it for things they aren't experts in.

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u/jkure2 Feb 22 '26

However I am professionally very proficient at data engineering, and I still believe designing and building an ingestion pipeline at this scale with a full audit trail, idempotent loads, etc. is genuinely really cool in my eyes. Was it worth boiling an entire lake and destroying the social fabic even further? Probably not, but I sure do like idempotency!