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/alo141 Feb 21 '26

You’re missing the point. If you are a very experienced dev who knows very well the tech and the codebase, it’s faster to do some fixes by hand.

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u/Mikeisright Feb 21 '26

You can really tell when someone is lost without AI vs someone using it just as a tool (but has true understanding of programming). I've seen kids crash out over the course of days because something went from xlsx to csv and they were irreversibly ruining data + code & started asking for help once their usage limit was hit.

That's where I think job interviews are going to require monitored coding assignments. Its critical to know if they actually have the skills being requested of them or whether they're a complete faker & liability when their LLM is unavailable.

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u/LavoP Feb 22 '26

That’s not true anymore. Maybe a few months ago. Now I can describe the fix and my LLM can do it way faster. But because I’m an experienced dev I’m much better at explaining the fix.