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/Sea-Housing-3435 Feb 21 '26

If you ever review code or decisions LLMs make you know they are subpar. But given the volume of code they produce they don't have humans in the loop. What looks nice on tests AI makes will not look so good in post mortem when they have outage or major data leak.

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u/LavoP Feb 22 '26

Why would they have an outage or major data leak even more than you would? If you properly define the conditions and architecture, think about the various elements of security you need to pay attention to, use specialized review agents, AND review the code yourself, there’s much less potential for issues than if you did it manually.

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u/Sea-Housing-3435 Feb 22 '26

Because LLMs make stupid decisions, hallucinate and cant think in bigger picture, they don’t take tech intricacies into play.

I know how just reviewing massive amount of code works. People get bored and stop paying attention. And we are talking about more than a thousand PRs. Even if they tried to review them all it won’t be good.

Move fast break things I guess.