You've articulated what I found unsettling about Boris' pov that "coding is a solved problem". I listened to a few of his talks and was instinctively off-put by that sentiment. I figured a fellow programmer would understand and speak on the nuances.

Granted it did make me think about my biases and to lean into more future facing inevitabilities. But you've nailed it, for Boris and Anthropic, they are betting that coding is a solved problem in the sense that any person can one-shot any random idea and the output will be in some abstract sense "good". And then at what cost and toward what end?

On the one hand it feels true. On the other I ask - what good software have anthropic, or anyone else, produced that was fully vibed?

As someone who does near 100% of my coding via LLM these days, i still find that for anything complex i am still looking at and thinking in terms of code. Im still quality checking and steering at some interval via code. And im still not sure how or whether i can replicate that level of thought without still dealing in code at times.

In this last week I've started reviewing code more and in just a short time, I've found 3 fairly simple things that were introduced by Claude that were not wrong per se, however, they were very inefficient and didn't address the root of the issue. I still think we're in a place where the output looks good as long as you don't look under the hood or keep it scoped to small, vibe-coded projects. Once you get beyond that it can fall apart. Anthropic must have a large codebase by now though. Yet I haven't seen much released from them about how they actually work day to day on development.