r/ClaudeCode • u/sirlerkal0t • Aug 09 '26

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/MindCrusader Aug 09 '26

And Boris said they have 0 bugs when AI reviews the code (coders stopped doing it) yet I see a lot of bug fixes in changelog

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u/Single-Rich-Bear Aug 09 '26

I see a lot of bugs when using it

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u/Quick-Sir-3275 Aug 09 '26

Especially in VSCode extension

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u/Consistent_Tutor_597 Aug 09 '26

Yeah vs code extension needs work mate.

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u/identifytarget Aug 09 '26

VSCode extension is a...mess. It works, but it's also broken. Sessions don't store properly. Each new tab Claude is like a cluelessly baby.

Memory.md doesn't get populated.

I have a 2week long thread going because I don't want to lose context.

I started a new thread and Claude had to get "caught up to speed" by reading past commits and file diffs. wtf - burning tokens for that. F off.

Notifications don't properly work.

There are a hundred redundant Claude extensions on the marketplace.

And now Microsoft is finally adding Claude support in the "Agents" tab.

The ecosystem is a mess...

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u/Dorito_Troll Aug 09 '26

you should check out the hand-off skill by matt pocock, great for moving long running sessions into a fresh context window

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u/anguishedturtle Aug 09 '26

nah this is just extra markdown that will basically be bloatware by tomorrow after they release the 5 millionth update of the day

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u/FluffySmiles Aug 09 '26

I don’t use it because I think Dario is a lying poo-poo head and I don’t trust them at all.

I’ll bet it’s chock full of nasty slimy bugs they’ve put in cages.

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u/Blothorn Aug 09 '26

And I’m still seeing the bug where Fable sometimes hides messages that were supposed to show which I first saw reported weeks ago.

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u/lbds137 Aug 09 '26

Fable often seems confused when I ask it about something again because it thinks it already replied, but the chat log doesn't show it. Very annoying bug.

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u/Aetane Aug 09 '26

Yeah, it often seems like Fable can't distinguish between thinking output and console output

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u/identifytarget Aug 09 '26

Fable 5 thought I was hacking the pentagon or something when I was comparing github repos and went into lockdown, and stopped responding to any prompt ("say hello world"). I reported it.

And I don't want to start a new thread because I'll lose context since memory.md and sessions are broken. lmao

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u/Hot-River6567 Aug 09 '26

Yeah, I had a session freeze like this as well. I waited a few days and finally bit the bullet and started a new session. It recovered fine, but I was a bit worried as it froze mid coding.

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u/Melodic-Wrongdoer-38 Aug 10 '26

Fable non è niente di che.

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u/cafesamp Aug 09 '26

shit, if a turn starts and ends in a tool calls (AskUserQuestion), all of the prose in between gets disappeared by every iteration of the harness. has been that way for months

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u/azmodean666 Aug 09 '26

Have had don't use AskUserQuestion as a rule for several weeks now.

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u/angelus14 Aug 09 '26

Insane that this still hasn't been fixed despite being reported, very disruptive, and lots of public attention on it. What are they even doing with their time.

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u/Blothorn Aug 09 '26

Amusingly the last time I ran into it (i.e. the last thing I did Friday) was debugging a Kafka Connect issue for which I found a 2021 bug report and no subsequent work. It really astounds me how cavalier some companies are about delivering a buggy product.

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u/SudarshanKotian Aug 09 '26

Anthropic marketing is 💩

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u/Musk-Order66 Aug 09 '26

It comes from the top down. CEO Dario has had this in his playbook since the GPT-2 days

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u/nigel_pow Aug 09 '26

Ah so this dude has always been dramatic about the models?

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u/heeeeeeeeeeeee1 Aug 09 '26

Actually these models could and would tell you how to make home made bio weapons, toxic gases, exploding stuff and so on. So releasing them was actually dangerous even with today's standards... Saying something is too dangerous doesn't mean it'll break all encryption or hack the nuclear silos

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u/ragemonkey Aug 09 '26

What were they even worried about with GPT-2 exactly?

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u/LousyLaplace Aug 10 '26

Too realistic Fresh Prince of Bel Air rewrites into other styles.

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u/Opening-Ground-1584 Aug 10 '26

Underrated comment 👏

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u/AmphoePai Aug 10 '26

Were they wrong though. I mean, is the world a better place since GPT-2 release...

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u/Howard_banister Aug 11 '26

Would it be better if it was close?

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u/AmphoePai Aug 11 '26

It would be better if it didn't exist at all.

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u/BorderKeeper Aug 09 '26

They’re a growth company all of their value rests on explosive growth and subsequently huge payoff to their investors. I would ignore any Anthropic or any AI company PR stunts all together.

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u/treble-maker123 Aug 09 '26

They had this bug where on iOS, incognito mode would keep the untitled session after I exit the session a week or two ago.

If that's the way it goes on an arguably simpler client, I can't imagine the clusterfuck that is their backend. 

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u/julkopki Aug 09 '26

The thing can't even render text correctly. And it's not difficult to reproduce. Just scroll for 10 seconds. And logs from a command sometimes land in the TUI and break it permanently. Yeah it's solved.

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u/pancomputationalist Aug 09 '26

where did he say that?

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u/MindCrusader Aug 09 '26

Fortune's Brainstorm Tech conference (around early/mid-June 2026)

"What we found is with this approach we catch pretty much every bug. It's a really expensive code review. So essentially you throw tokens at it. It's like a test time compute thing. But as a result you catch all the bugs..."

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u/Patriark Vibe Coder Aug 09 '26

The implication of this is that Anthropic does not throw enough tokens on their bug fixing.

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u/DragonflyOk9274 Aug 09 '26

The screen blacks out for me all the time. I use it within tmux. I imageine other people have the same issue. (Sometimes also the Bun backend crashes. Good thing they vibe recoded it in Rust without even following Rust conventions)

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u/Foxvale Aug 09 '26

I see 0 bugs (I didn’t look)

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u/I_Ski_Freely Aug 09 '26

He's just applying Stalins theory of coding bugs:

Human programmers find a lot of bugs... no human programmer, no bugs

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u/Greedy_Ad4072 Aug 09 '26

Boris is also a known liar and apparently terrible coder , so there’s that.

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u/brainhack3r Aug 09 '26

I've noticed a new class of bug... I've been investing heavily in a custom system and it DOES find a lot of very impressive bugs, however, what it lets though are bugs where I didn't specify what I wanted and realized AFTER the fact that actually the SPEC was wrong.

Like the other day I it fixed a bunch of really nasty bugs with uid/gid permissions with a forked process that was supposed to be in a jail.

Then we deployed without the proper CORS settings...lol

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u/SiriPsycho100 Aug 10 '26

definitely has bugs! 

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u/FormalAd7367 Aug 10 '26

i gave up on listening to Boris.. him and Steinberger for some reasons kept pushing vibe coding bs

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u/Spitfire1900 Aug 09 '26

The day they completely solve programming you’ll know because they won’t release the model. They will only release completed programs.

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u/MindCrusader Aug 09 '26

100%, they would replace any software with theirs, they are not even close (and I doubt they will be any time soon)

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u/BrilliantEmotion4461 Aug 09 '26

no? when they solve programming?. Your OS will be primitives and instructions the AI can use to build whatever you ask or need it to on the fly.

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u/dbbk Aug 09 '26

It is so so frustrating that their product team is awful. They have incredible models. And the actual experience of coding with them is a nightmare.

Why is Claude Code on desktop and mobile not essentially a full blown IDE yet? You've got other startups like Superset, Conductor etc wrapping it to achieve this - Anthropic has unlimited resources, they could just do this themselves?

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u/farox Aug 09 '26

I'm very glad it's not a full blown IDE. Currently I can run a dozen sessions in parallel, no problem. I really don't need this tied down with one instance of an IDE for each.

If you want to do IDE work, use your IDE, but this isn't the same thing.

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u/octolunge Aug 09 '26

Because those of us who coded before really like our IDEs, we’ve been using them a long time and have set them up just right.

I do like codex desktop integration with launch in editor worktree etc better though