I saw this hilarious exchange in one of the issues covering Apple’s recent changes that make it impossible to download IPA files.
Recreating an iPhone’s authentication to Apple App Store is a bit of a cat and mouse game. Apple recently changed it’s backend, so now dozens of projects are trying to find ways to circumvent or crack the Apple App Store download authentication.
Blacktop, out of likely boredom or curiosity, threw Claude at this issue for Claude to error out.
To be fair, it’s likely impossible for Claude to have figured this issue out. The ‘fix’ will be something quite novel, for example perhaps reverse engineering a way to authenticate with modern Apple App Store using an old Windows version of iTunes that is still supported.
Perhaps in the near future AI agents will be powerful enough to understand more complex environments, which will be interesting for these types of problems, but for now, it’s far from capable.
Edit: For anyone interested in the issue itself, I’d recommend checking / following this issue as well