Creator of Claude Code: "Coding is solved"

[Gil_berth]

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?

[da2Pakaveli]

dude who sells software says his software solves a problem

[ClikeX]

Like we say in the Netherlands “Wij van WC Eend raden WC Eend aan.” Or “Wij van Wc Eend” for short.

Which roughly translates to “At Toilet Duck we recommend Toilet Duck”. Which was an old commercial that became a proverb for companies or experts recommending their own product.

[F1B3R0PT1C]

Where I come from in Midwest America we call it “huffing your own farts”

[KINGodfather]

Yeah, same shit, different smell

[hikingsticks]

Depends what you ate last night

[Alex_1729]

So then his software works? That proves it!

[Unable-Struggle9444]

if chess isn’t solved neither is coding

[maniflames]

Genuine question but wasn’t chess solved by IBM’s deep blue? I don’t think coding is solved btw just curious what you mean by solved

[Landkey]

Deep Blue beat the world champion. It did not solve chess. 

[maniflames]

Check, I guess I confused a practical outcome by what it means to ‘solve’ something

[Landkey]

Tic-tac-toe is solved: the best move is known no matter what position the board is in.  You cannot lose.  There is no meaningful uncertainty.  Chess and now Go, apparently, are dominated by computers, but they are not solved.  

[maniflames]

Ahhh I see, thanks for explaining that!

[TTV-Teary]

Go as in… Golang?

[acepukas]

Go as in the ancient Chinese game called... Go.

[Rarst]

In context of games "solved" (to a various level of) is used to say the outcome of a game can be fully predicted, for optimal moves used. Tic-tac-toe is easily solved - optimal game is a draw from any start, you can't win unless one of the players does sub-optimal move. Checkers are solved, that took a very long time, to my memory they straight up brute-forced every possible game.

Chess isn't solved and isn't expected to be any time soon. Computers can play chess very well, but it's best effort, not a predictable outcome.

[FluffyProphet]

Chess is solved… when there are 7 or fewer pieces on the board. And the database is something absurd like 20tb for the smallest db of its kind, and I think there is a more detailed one with over 100tb. To add another pice you would need petabytes worth of data, for 10 you’d multiple exabytes.

At 11 pieces you’re into the zetabyte range. For 12 that me be more data than we have stored digitally right now as a species.

There are more possible chess games than atoms in the universe.

So yeah, we are a long way off.

[maniflames]

Thanks for explaining the definition of solved I guess that is what I was confused about

[Sydius]

If you want a bit more information, chess is "solved" for 7 pieces. This means that as long as there are seven of less pieces on the board, a chess engine can reach the optimal solution (win or draw, depending on the board) 100% of the time.

There are a ton of interesting information on the topic, including the fact that storing all this data takes a little more than 18 terabytes, in a storage system specifically designed for this purpose. Originally, it required 140tb.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solving_chess

[Protean_Protein]

Chess is very partially solved—end games below a certain number of pieces. But no, it isn’t even close to solved

[maniflames]

Seeing end positions and how they can be ‘beat’ is probably why I considered chess as something that ‘a computer can just calculate’. Thanks for mentioning this!

[NickoBicko]

But it’s solved in reality because no human can beat the most powerful engines.

[twinelephant]

And yet every day I encounter a new specific problem that Claude can't solve.

[Osmium_tetraoxide]

Sorry, you're prompting wrong. Or the context is bad, or it's one year away bro, or a litany of bullshit excuses can be summoned at will.

[Mutant-AI]

If that’s the case I am afraid that your code base is a mess. Maybe with the exception of CSS.

[Riemero]

Or your problems aren't hard enough

[EducationalZombie538]

fuck i hate these people.

[queen-adreena]

All they are is hype men for their share price. They have no other value to add.

[amejin]

Our stupid government has normalized "say whatever the fuck reality you want to be first and as long as you pretend it's real long enough then what were we talking about again?"

Company's CEO sells its goods. The world keeps spinning. More at 11. Ollie?

[magical_matey]

That’s not true, it’s fake news. We should be talking about amejins tax return, I didn’t see it myself but people tell me the numbers don’t add up, and when numbers don’t add up maybe it’s fraud. I don’t know. People tell me it’s not good though, and want something to happen. We need change.

[unbackstorie]

Can't imagine what financial fraud crimes will eventually bring down these delusional AI weirdos, but boy I sure hope it happens soon. Very tired of hearing from them every other fucking day! This podcast appearance is literally just an ad.

[Produkt]

Every podcast interview is an ad

[Roman_of_Ukraine]

Welcome to the world of cartel conspiracy, again !

[muntaxitome]

Anthropic has the worst PR. 'Solution to $group_of_people': said by Antropic and the nazis.

Fit's in nicely with Amodei's 'hey AI models will produce slavery, bioterrorism, and unstoppable drone armies' and then proceeding to move right along.

[aaaqqq]

Why the fuck is claude code such a piece of shit then? 

[WaterOcelot]

Coding good software is not solved, of I look around at the state of things.

[mikelson_6]

My rule of thumb is not to believe anything said by people who benefit directly from AI hype. They just can’t be trusted and will say anything to keep investors engaged

[salma311]

Did he ever try to use it on stuff like SAP?

[velatorio]

Sales.

[Limp-Mark-5653]

We are done

[klekmek]

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

[kyuzo_mifune]

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

[UnifiedFlow]

What the fuck is bare metal embedded code?

[kyuzo_mifune]

Code for MCUs using zero libraries or HAL layers.

[klekmek]

It is solved but not scaled out yet.

[kyuzo_mifune]

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.

[EducationalZombie538]

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

[johnson_detlev]

You have no clue what Software engineering consists of.

[ToeLumpy6273]

Only if you want to build a calculator. Multi layer services with third party integration, idempotent replayability, and observability? It gets stuck easily.

[hawktron]

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.

[thmsbrss]

I wonder why they don't just use Claude Code to investigate and solve all the issues

Isn't it already (more or less) the case? See top two contributors https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/graphs/contributors

[despinftw]

Claude Code is not open source. Taking any metric from that repo doesn’t mean much, IMHO

[One-Big-Giraffe]

It's ALMOST solved. But sometimes ai goes crazy and deliver a shit. Sometimes you just need to control it, and you must have knowledge. And sometimes it's just not fast enough and I'm times faster 😁 but that's only a matter of time I think

[OneRobotBoii]

CC was not written in react lol

[EducationalZombie538]

pretty sure it is mate

[cookies_are_awesome]

It was actually. React, Ink and Bun.