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Public story · 2026-08-25 · high
Boris Cherny says he hasn't written code by hand since November and ships 10 to 30 PRs a day, prompting a community note.
Why now: Cherny posted the claim on August 21, and the debate over what solved means was still active four days later.
Boris Cherny, who leads Claude Code, argued in a post on X on August 21 that coding is solved and bugs aren't. A community note on the post links to Wikipedia's entry on software bugs, pushing back on the word solved.
The distinction matters because it sets the bar for what engineers still have to check by hand in daily work. On r/ClaudeAI, the debate settled on a split: writing code is easy now, catching bugs without adding new regressions still needs a person.
Cherny's follow-up explains further. He says models already code better than he does, and the next work is coding-adjacent: debugging, profiling, optimizing. He says he hasn't written code by hand since November 2025 and ships 10 to 30 pull requests a day.
The post doesn't include PR size, review depth, or revert rate, so the number alone doesn't show how that work holds up over time.
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