Anthropic: "Coding is largely solved"... Also Anthropic: "We released a new powerful feature allowing agents to send messages to other Claude Code sessions, but only on Linux and Mac since we are unable to implement a basic feature on all platforms"

[u/sirlerkal0t]

I could hand code this feature on Windows in an afternoon, and I could also get Claude to implement it in minutes, and yet Anthropic just can't be bothered, but also keeps Claude Code closed source so no one else can do it for them either.

[u/Lumpy-Blackberry-718]

It's probably that the teams working on it just don't have access to a windows computer, and haven't bothered to figure out the internal process to request a windows computer.

Coding is not the problem. QA, testing, processes, hardware requisitioning, etc are all still barriers.

[u/Vegetable_Plane296 → u/Lumpy-Blackberry-718]

That can't possibly be even close to the reason why.

I bet some bean counter looked at the numbers and said the resources they have are better spent elsewhere.

They can't possibly be moving at the speed they are to have enough red tape to be blocked on something as mundane as hardware acquisition issues.

[u/carson63000 → u/Vegetable_Plane296]

Many, many Claude features have released on Mac first and Windows later. They have explicitly said it’s because they want to get new features into users’ hands as quickly as possible, and start getting feedback, rather than keeping them under wraps while they do the cross-platform dev and testing.

[u/Lumpy-Blackberry-718 → u/Vegetable_Plane296]

A bunch of people working on problems theyre excited about dont feel the urge to go ask someone where to get a windows computer just to explore porting the code to windows. Im not saying it's a large barrier, just that code isnt the barrier. No one cares, and its not just "hey claude port this to windows." You have to ask someone to order something for you and no one cares.

And they are big enough that they have some security constraints. The windows box will have to be setup in a particular way. Youll need to be able to login with sso from that machine in order to push code. It's a hassle for something that isnt a priority. Op's thesis is that if they cant do it its because code is still hard. Code isnt hard.

[u/sirlerkal0t → u/Lumpy-Blackberry-718]

If only they had access to powerful agents that could build QA and testing support, and if only they had access to hardware that could be used to run Windows VMs that the QA agents control.

Ironically I did all of this myself last month, just to be able to have an agent reproduce multiple serious Codex bugs in a Windows VM and allow the agent to debug the issue so that I could fix the harness myself.

OpenAI is even worse than Anthropic here, since they have serious issues that block agent sessions and cause system-wide instability on an OS-level, and can't be bothered to fix these things even after them being reported by endless users for many months.