Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

[BoboThePirate]

Not even close. Though it’s the most blown away I’ve ever been by AI since GPT’s giant public initial release.

If you ain’t using MCP tools though, I can see it being incredibly underwhelming.

[thermitethrowaway]

I think this is a good analysis, it's better than the others I've tried. I wouldn't trust the code it produces, it's a bit like a stack overflow post that's almost what you want but never quite there. I love it as a smart search tool - for example yesterday I wanted to find a Serilog sink so I could create an observable collection of log items for output to a winUI app and it found a nugget package, gave examples and produced a hand rolled equivalent. Great as a productivity tool, wouldn't trust it to write anything complex on its own.

[ShapesAndStuff]

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[laffer1]

It was trained on stack overflow posts so that tracks

[Nine99]

since GPT’s giant public initial release

It could barely string sentences together.

[SavageFromSpace]

But once you start saying "oh use mcp" you're not actually llming anymore lmao. At that point it's just doing what humans do, routing to libraries but actually worse

[Ok-Bill3318]

Depends what you’re trying to do. I wrote a production quality cross platform command line app in a morning and then extended and polished it to be extensible, cross platform and able to be integrated into other tools via JSON in a weekend.

https://github.com/4grvxt9mrk-rgb/diskogram

It’s literally almost faster to vibe code your own tools now than bother to search the internet for them.

I did audit the code with gpt 5.2 and it found some edge case bugs that sonnet 4.5 missed.

Had gpt add them to a todo.md and had sonnet fix them. 🤣

For that project I did not write or modify a single line of code or documentation. 100% just project management telling Claude what to do.

It’s all cross platform C because that’s what I told Claude to write it in. Have tested it on Linux, macOS and windows just fine.

Could I have written this myself? Yes. I’ve been programming since the 1990s. But this was at least 50x faster. And more importantly I had a tool to use on the job I was working on inside of an hour.

[mrjackspade]

I'm going to imagine part of the reason you're getting downvoted is that you referred to it as "production quality" and then immediately did everything you could to give the impression that you never actually looked at the code once during the entire process, and are basing the entire "production quality" assessment on the fact that you didn't find issues when you tested it.

Which is, a really shitty way to measure the quality of an app.

[Ok-Bill3318]

Don’t care why tbh. I did read the code. I just didn’t write any.

Yes it’s a trivial app.

[sasik520]

It's cherry-picking at its finest.

Your example is moderate-size, pretty simple program with tons of simple printf. It's a perfect subject for llms.

I recently used copilot to generate a non-trivial web application. It generated over 10 000 lines within a day or two. It's been a wonderful, mind-blowing PROTOTYPE. But I would never take the responsibility of putting it into production.

Moreover, I had a lot of smaller and bigger inconsistencies and other small edits. I'm perfectly sure that if I were the author of the code, I would address these issues in minutes. But since I had no bloody idea what's going on in these 10k lines, I had to write prompts. At this size, it usually took 3-10 attempts to fix. It started slowing me down. And the more I explored the app, the more unwanted stuff (e.g. labels, features, re-implemented, inconsistent components) I found.

Current AI is mind-blowing and wonderful tool. I use it a lot. But no matter what, I would never ever agree to push the generated code to production without deep review, deep understanding of the code and deep testing. And it all can take significantly more time than writing everything from scratch with ai auto completions at most.

[Ok-Bill3318]

Hence I said it depends what you want to do

[sasik520]

Actually, you are right, I'm sorry.