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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 t
by exabrial 8mo ago
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.
- arcfour 8mo agoI 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?
- perardi 8mo agoNope. 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”.
- exabrial 8mo agoNo, sadly. I wish it were native. Its _terrible_.
- YetAnotherNick 8mo agoNot only that, it is the slowest app among all AI apps.
- ceroxylon 8mo agoIt 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.