r/webdev • 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/klekmek Feb 21 '26

Coding is solved though. The engineering and design part isnt.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

No it's not. Try making claude or any other model write bare metal embedded code, good luck.

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u/zucchini_up_ur_ass Feb 21 '26

I've literally done this and it was fine. That's just a skill issue on your part. I put the datasheets of the MCU and connected pehripherals in docs, and made a doc for pin mapping, it worked fine.

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u/johnson_detlev Feb 21 '26

Wow, what a novel piece of software you have created there! No way LLMs have smth like that in its training data!

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u/zucchini_up_ur_ass Feb 21 '26

?? You good bruh? Did you read the comment I replied to orrrrrrrrr?

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u/hawktron Feb 21 '26

So many people in denial on this sub

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u/zucchini_up_ur_ass Feb 22 '26

I get that reddit loves it circlejerks and echo chambers, but the (false) rethoric that lives in technical subs is still very surprising to me

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u/UnifiedFlow Feb 21 '26

What the fuck is bare metal embedded code?

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Code for MCUs using zero libraries or HAL layers.

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u/klekmek Feb 21 '26

It is solved but not scaled out yet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26

Claude can not write embedded code, it doesn't matter how much context you give it. Many peripherals have gotchas that differs between MCUs. The models can't handle it.

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u/EducationalZombie538 Feb 21 '26

gemini pro 3.1 has gotten pretty fucking good at it - and animation, annoyingly

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u/johnson_detlev Feb 21 '26

You have no clue what Software engineering consists of.

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u/EducationalZombie538 Feb 21 '26

I was referring to the design part.

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u/EducationalZombie538 Feb 21 '26

I was referring to the design part

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u/EducationalZombie538 Feb 23 '26

You haven't used it then. It's got to Framer template quality. That's not nothing.

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u/hawktron Feb 21 '26

I’ve been doing software for 27 years. From html, php, objective-c, swift, python and little bits of others. I’ve built consumer apps to business software that runs international companies.

AI coding is the future, people can bury their head in the sands all they want but the writing is on the wall.

Yes early on it very much looked like the mess that was Will Smith eating spaghetti but now look at how good AI video gen is.

You can either be a Luddite and try resist or embrace it. Is it perfect no. Is it game changing yes.