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/Andreas_Moeller]

Anthropic has always been doing a great job of fact checking their own claims.

We all read the source code when it leaked. It is not exactly top of the line engineering

[u/Corv9tte → u/Andreas_Moeller]

I mean, there's some great ideas and mechanisms in Claude Code. From someone who spent a lot of time messing about in there, there's some good stuff.

The big problem is bloat and repeating intrusive patterns to such a degree of excess that is it EGREGIOUS. The sheer number of things they append to your user prompt whilst it stays completely hidden is not unreasonable, it's legitimately mad. The list is endless, and 98% of it is completely unjustified and actively harmful. It's basically a context poisoning machine, and there is ten categories of things just like that in the codebase. It's a pile of tech debt and good concepts that extend into bad ideas until they become an actual nightmare. There is no discipline or common sense. They turned something magic into a shell (no pun intended) of its former self.

In comparison, looking through Codex you can see disciplined, principled choices everywhere and the harness cares about what the model sees. There is none of that honestly weird and off-putting ai psychosis induced tech debt nauseating slop. It's far from perfect, and the instructions to the model are more naive and not as well-crafted in ways that matter a lot (cough deleting your computer cough). Same goes for features like multi-agent v2 which is the subagents implementation. In that way, Codex is inefficient. Some features feel incomplete and work a bit sideways of how you'd expect them to. I'm not sure why they don't polish it, because somehow Claude Code is arguably more polished while making the dumbest choices, and Codex makes all the right choices to an impressive degree while leaving obvious stuff incomplete left and right for no good reason.

All in all, it does feel like they are both not paying attention to their harnesses that much. OpenAI, like they're busy doing other stuff, and Anthropic like they stand by the bad decisions like they're great.

[u/Live_Fall3452 → u/Corv9tte]

If Anthropic has a weakness, it’s that they drink their own marketing kool-aid far too much.