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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by time0ut »

preommr wrote: post #19
zerealshadowban wrote: post #7

Claudia is open-source, made by a S24 YC company https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/asterisk

I definitely thought this was an anthropic thing that they were trying to spin off into it's own website and app for normies. I am not saying it's infringement, I am just saying that my dumb brain made that connection and I feel like it's not unreasonable to assume that other people might as well.

Oh wow. I thought it was anthropic even after skimming the site. The color scheme and styling is pretty similar. That feels a little slimy.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by [deleted] »

sejje wrote: post #114
user3939382 wrote: post #64

Doesn’t make any sense to me. GUIs are discoverability tools. LLMs are essentially a runtime with a natural language interface. Why would it need a GUI wrapper? By definition its discoverability is already 100%.

> LLMs are essentially a runtime with a natural language interface LLMs are that, but claude code is not.

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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by mikestaas »

unethical_ban wrote: post #118
zarzavat wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm more optimistic. Open source and open weights will eat this whole space. Training is capital-intensive, yes, but so far it appears that there will always be some entities willing to train models and release them for free. All it takes is a slowdown at the frontier for the open models to catch up. The money is in the hardware, not the software.

I still can't figure out how to set up a completely free, completely private/no-accounts method of connecting an IDE to LM Studio. I thought it would be "Continue" extension for VS Code, but even for local LM integration it insists I sign-in to their service before continuing.

Roo code in vs code, and qwen coder in lm studio is a decent local only combo.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by calvinmorrison »

ramoz wrote: post #96
commandar wrote: post #29

On the one hand, it's good that we're seeing a lot of exploration in this space. On the other, the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools that largely replicate the same functionality with the primary variation being greater-or-lesser lock-in to a particular set of services. This is about the third tool this week I've taken a quick look at and thought "I don't see what this offers me that I d…

And then the providers ship a landmark feature or overhaul themselves. Especially as their models advance. Wrappers constantly live in the support and feature parity of today. Anthropic’s Claude Code will look a hell of a lot different a year from now, probably more like an OS for developers and Claude Agent non-tech. Regardless they are eating the stack. Pricing/usage will be very simple - a fixed subscription and w…

So I work at a company that sells a product that is part of a larger ecosystem. the parent company has spent 35 years NOT having a solution to our niche. There are others like us too in the space. Some do WMS, some do EDI, etc.

So depending on the parent company, they may prefer to have a - to be a little enterprisey - set of ISVs that are better in specifc domains.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by rmonvfer »

jelambs wrote: post #60

interesting, does it let you manage multiple claude code agents without having to spin up different git worktrees? we were discussing the other day how that's an annoying limitation of claude code compared to codex, and the friction in having to manage those different worktrees feels just not quite worth it.

I just run them at the same time. As long as each instance is working in different parts of the codebase, there should be no problem. No worktrees needed!

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by nicoslepicos »

For folks interested in options for working with teams of agents like Claude Code in parallel, we're building Magnet

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Magnet - The AI workspace for agentic coding

http://www.magnet.run

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You can think of Magnet as your workspace for collaborating with your human & AI agent team mates. We let you quickly spin up Claude Code sandboxes for every issue, and we're also thinking about how AI can be more of a thought partner in building high-quality software.

We're thinking about this problem space more broadly than just trying to be a GUI for Claude Code (though that's already a great starting point).

These are a few of the themes we think about:

- How can we use AI to help you think critically about the features you're prioritizing and what to build next?

- How can we always assemble and provide exactly the right context for every issue you're working on?

- What are the best patterns for collaborating with your human & AI teammates, to ship the highest quality code?

- How can you best specify exactly what you want, and verify that it's what you hoped for?

Would love for y'all to try it, and I'll post a video of me building a product with Magnet a little later here - the tool's getting really fun to use!

We're also very open to feedback and try to incorporate learnings quickly! I spent a large part of this weekend using Magnet to fix most of the issues someone we onboarded Friday brought up

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by resonious »

alphazard wrote: post #11

Does this sandbox the agents? All I want is a way to keep the agents from writing to and reading from arbitrary places on the filesystem. I want that enforced using operating system primitives rather than a pinky promise with an LLM. It already worries me that the Cursor agents occasionally try to perform operations with full absolute paths, which they wouldn't be able to know if they were properly sandboxed to the c…

I think OpenAI's Codex does this. Not sure to what degree, but sandboxing seems to be a priority for that project. Possibly to their detriment since last time I tried it it was not nearly as good as Claude Code.
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