[BoiledCabbage]

Because Anthropic has never claimed that code is free?

It's pretty easy to argue your point if you pick a strawman as your opponent.

They have said that you can be significantly more productive (which seems to be the case for many) and that most of their company primarily uses LLM to write code and no longer write it by hand. They also seems to be doing well w.r.t. competition.

There are legitimate complaints to be made against LLMs, pick one of them - but don't make up things to argue against.

[oytis]

Point still stands. If you are so much more productive and have some of the most expensive engineers in the world, why not write something decent

[throwaw12]

Why rewrite if thing exists?

You can use those expensive engineers to build more stuff, not rewrite old stuff

[noah_buddy]

Because these tools are good at using frameworks with a lot of examples out there.

[vasco]

Head of Claude Code at Anthropic 3 days ago: "Coding is largely solved" https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/head-of-claude-code-what-...

[teemur]

I'm not sure coding has ever been the hard part. Hard part (to me) has always been to be smart enough to know what, exactly, I (or somebody else) want. Or has someone heard of a case when someone says something like "These requirements are perfectly clear and unambiguous and do not have any undefined edge/corner cases. But implementing that is still really hard, much harder than what producing this unicorn requirements spec was"?

[LordHumungous]

However there are many people out there making the argument that code is free or nearly so. I think the article is directed at them.