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It's about app-ifying the desktop. Instead of opening a browser, then remembering that you have a bookmark and clicking it or googling the site you are looking for, the idea is to have a step less and just click something on your desktop or taskbar (like on a mobile device)
The browser experience is 10x better
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Out of curiosity, why do you like gemini-cli better than claude or codex? And do you have any comparisons to opencode or pi? Personally I've really liked OpenCode's TUI, but maybe on a superficial level of "this looks good and feels ergonomic to me". Gemini cli felt clunky for me when I tried a while ago, but maybe it's better now? I do like how it's open source and I'm wondering if it can be made as model agnostic a…
I don't really see or feel a difference in a lot of the the cli tooling, however, for development work Gemini is just hands down better. And I pay for ultra, and while that's not cheap, I know I can just use it however long I want for whatever I want and I'll never go past the price I pay unlike some API key only models.
It's the only one that consistently just starts breaking shit without prompting.
I'll give it something like "investigate this issue: " and tab out.
Then I come back and the motherfucker has rewritten half the codebase. This has happened MULTIPLE times.
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I’ve been missing agentic capabilities from almost all local LLM apps. It’s like they’re all stuck in 2023. That’s why I started using OpenCode for this. It works pretty well, the web UI comes pretty close to a general chat app. You can use folders to organize your sessions like projects (which annoyingly Gemini still doesn’t have) with files and extra instructions. It’s pretty powerful.
OpenCode is one solution, but there are also several alternatives. For example pi-dev, but even Codex is open source and it should work with any locally-hosted model, e.g. by using the OpenAI-compatible API provided by llama-server. I have not used pi-dev until now, but the recent presentation of pi-dev by its developer (reported on other HN threads) has convinced me that he is among the people who can distinguish go…
One thing I’m considering (depending on how happy I am with OpenCode after trying to remove some questionable functionality it has) would be to make Pi (or Codex) speak the OpenCode protocol so that its web UI can be used with it.
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> Remember, an app is just a website skinned in the right kind of IP to make it a felony to add an ad-blocker to it
I've had the gemini web app in a safari embedded browser tab for 6+months its worked great as a local app. (M1 Pro base spec) I set Super + C set to open it. First impressions of the native app: I think I will save RAM and it will be faster - Cool. Download, install, sign in - Easy. Change the keyboard shortcuts - Simple. cmd + N to open a new chat - better than cmd + shift + O in the web app. Back to work, a few mom…
I've had the gemini web app in a safari embedded browser tab for 6+months its worked great as a local app. (M1 Pro base spec) I set Super + C set to open it. First impressions of the native app: I think I will save RAM and it will be faster - Cool. Download, install, sign in - Easy. Change the keyboard shortcuts - Simple. cmd + N to open a new chat - better than cmd + shift + O in the web app. Back to work, a few mom…
Why would it save any RAM if you already have a browser open where it just eats the cost of an extra tab? I haven't used it but I'm assuming it's electron or similar and not actually "native"
I've had the gemini web app in a safari embedded browser tab for 6+months its worked great as a local app. (M1 Pro base spec) I set Super + C set to open it. First impressions of the native app: I think I will save RAM and it will be faster - Cool. Download, install, sign in - Easy. Change the keyboard shortcuts - Simple. cmd + N to open a new chat - better than cmd + shift + O in the web app. Back to work, a few mom…
Well done and thank you.
If I was to ask for more there are a few things that Claude and Codex are doing better on. Way more integrations / skills. I wish I could use MCPs and skills here. Modern design and feel too. This design, while native, feels very outdated