[alwillis]

> If the purported benefits of agentic-coding systems are real, it should have been trivial for Anthropic to implement a native macOS application, and sell it as a benefit, no?

Absolutely. But there's the support, documentation and testing aspect and how they're setup.

To their credit, OpenAI acquired a team of experienced macOS developers when they bought Sky [1], the basis for the Mac version of Codex. Apple acquired Workflow from the same team years ago, which became Shortcuts, a core part of macOS's automation system.

Anthropic says 80% of their code is written by Claude; the remaining 20% requires some human expertise, especially with platform-specific features.

A native macOS version of Claude Desktop (and therefore Claude Cowork) would be a huge step forward for Anthropic. Hopefully it's a matter of when, not if.

[1]: https://www.macstories.net/news/sky-acquired-by-openai/