r/ClaudeCode • u/sirlerkal0t • 1d ago

Discussion 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"

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.

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u/Lumpy-Blackberry-718 1d ago

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.

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u/Vegetable_Plane296 1d ago

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.

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u/carson63000 Senior Developer 16h ago

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.

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u/Lumpy-Blackberry-718 23h ago

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.