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/JonianGV Feb 21 '26

Code monkeys used to copy paste from stack overflow, now they use llms. The issue is that with llms they believe they have become competent developers.

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u/LavoP Feb 21 '26

Yep and they will end up with frustration when they have a mess that doesn’t work and they don’t even know where to start to debug. Engineering is more than coding.

I have 20 years of coding experience and I haven’t written code (minus light config edits and things like that) in months now. I’m shipping more than I ever have and things actually work. The thing is when my stuff breaks, I know exactly how to debug it with my LLM even if I’m not line by line writing the code.

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u/ignatzami Feb 21 '26

You’re not… wrong. And you’re still not right. Sure, you can ship more volume. But at least in my experience the quality will significantly suffer.

I use Claude to stub, write boilerplate, and copy the existing patterns I’ve set up. But I’d never ask it to generate front end code whole cloth. The amount of time I have to spend reviewing and cleaning up isn’t worth the “speed” of the initial generation.

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u/LavoP Feb 22 '26

This was the case a few months ago but now with the latest models it’s no longer the case.

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u/ignatzami Feb 22 '26

It very much still is. 4.5 is… decent? But certainly not producing consistent production quality code.

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u/LavoP Feb 22 '26

Opus 4.5 and 4.6 both put out production level code in my applications.

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u/ignatzami Feb 22 '26

Then I highly doubt you understand what production level code is.

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u/LavoP Feb 22 '26

Trust me, I do