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Claude for Desktop
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#112Perhaps a gateway to run computer use locally? https://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use
I was hoping that's what this was, sadly it's not, but defn opening the door for it in the future
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#113if your "desktop app" gives me a cookie consent banner, i'm going to assume it's a pretty lazy effort to have a desktop app. i can click the "install page as app" button in chrome myself, thanks.
On the flip side, the ChatGPT desktop app is native on Mac and it's buggy and feature-incomplete compared to the web version.
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#114This LLM hype is out of control, they literally bullshit on any novel input (admittedly there's not a lot of this) and are wrong 15-20% of the time for all inputs
This isn't a "we'll just add more context", "we'll just add more instructions and params", "our multi-head transformers will auto-attention the tits off your query" etc - this is search based on probability maps. It is structurally unable to be intelligent, no matter how many models you chain together and how much compute you throw at it. But it can sure mimic that shit, which is why LPs are going to lose their shirts and GPs are going to struggle to raise follow on funds.
Let's move on.
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
The whole electron app uses less RAM than the page opened as a PWA? That’s surprising to me, how come? I somehow thought Safari was more memory efficient than Chromium
I was surprised, too, so I just checked. Sure enough, https://claude.ai takes 663MB. I wonder if there’s an architectural difference that allows the Electron app to be more lean? (Note I didn’t download the new app, just installed the PWA, so I didn’t verify those numbers.)
that's wild that essentially a website that's a few textboxes should take 600MBs+
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#116I'm still waiting for the ability to change my email address :/
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
I was surprised, too, so I just checked. Sure enough, https://claude.ai takes 663MB. I wonder if there’s an architectural difference that allows the Electron app to be more lean? (Note I didn’t download the new app, just installed the PWA, so I didn’t verify those numbers.)
The browser takes 663MB, or specifically the tab?
The Claude tab, itself. From Activity Monitor:
640.6 MB https://claude.ai
51.5 MB Claude
28.8 MB Claude Web Content
20.9 MB Open and Save Panel Service (Claude)
17.5 MB Claude Graphics and Media
15.5 MB Claude Networking
5.6 MB com.apple.Safari.SandboxBroker (Claude)
5.1 MB QuickLookUIService (Open and Save Panel Service (Claude))
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If I open Claude in Safari, Safari itself is 204MB, and the Claude tab is 640MB.
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#118Don't see linux, also no screenshots?
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#119Tangentially, what are people using to have a unified interface to query multiple LLMs? Juggling multiple apps or websites for each provider gets annoying. I was using openrouter but the chat history is only stored in browser, so I'm looking for something else now. I tried open-webui[1] and that looks pretty good but I wonder if there are better alternatives.
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#120For those that use LLMs in a similar manner to a search engine the Anthropic team (unlike Meta AI and Google Gemini) have made it easy to use Claude from right within your browser. In Firefox add a bookmark with the following values:
- Name: Claude AI
- URL: https://claude.ai/new?q=%s
- Keyword: ai (or whatever you'd like to use as a shortcut)
Now from the URL bar you can type: ai
For ChatGPT use https://chatgpt.com/?q=%s as the URL and for Microsoft Copilot use https://www.bing.com/search?showconv=1&sendquery=1&q=%s.