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0 pointsexabrial2mo ago0 comments

You know what would slay right now? A native app.

Not another piece of Electron bloatware, a regular, efficient, fast, snappy, native, app. One that connects to my MCP severs and has local filesystem tools.

Anthropic might fall behind Google/OpenAI eventually, but their Desktop App + MCP/Connectors is unbelievably useful to get real work done.

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arcfour2mo ago

I haven't used Anthropic's desktop app in months since I don't have access to a Mac anymore, but when I did...it was just an electron app? Did something change?

YetAnotherNick2mo ago

Not only that, it is the slowest app among all AI apps.

ceroxylon2mo ago

It also has some strange bugs between versions. There was an update a month or two ago that caused the app to be unable to quit normally, and I would have to 'force quit' it. Thankfully it was resolved, but it was unnerving to not be able to close the app normally.

perardi2mo ago

Nope. It is still Electron, and it is not snappy. And I am on an M3 Max MacBook Pro.

I have transitioned off ChatGPT for home use (Google provides me slightly better value in my personal life, as I can pay for a plan that also accommodates my weird photo storage needs) and it’s all Anthropic at work, but I miss the ChatGPT Mac app. I can’t say for certain if it was Electron or not—I never dug into the internals, and it felt very, very fast and “native”.

exabrialOP2mo ago

No, sadly. I wish it were native. Its _terrible_.

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