The state of coding agents can be summed up by this factClaude spent $20k on an agent swarm implementing (kinda) a C-compiler in Rust, but desktop Claude is an Electron app. What’s great about Electron is it allows you to build one desktop app that supports Windows, Mac, and Linux. Plus it lets developers use existing web app code to get started. Even Anthropic, one of the leaders in AI coding tools, who keeps publishing flashy agentic coding achievements, still uses Electron in the Claude desktop app. A good test suite and spec could enable the Claude team to ship a Claude desktop app native to each platform.