Software engineering tools without Linux versions are baffling to me.
Why? Linux users are a minority even among developers.
https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/technology#1-operating-...
Claude for Desktop
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Re: Claude for Desktop
#202For 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/…
Also in Firefox Dev Edition settings (in the Firefox Labs section) you can turn on their AI chatbot feature which gives you the option to send the selected text to Claude or other chatbots and opens their response in a sidebar.
https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/06/24/experimenting-wi...
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#203Earlier quoted context omitted.
> For anything more involved, I want a tab and an URL. Why, exactly?
Probably for bookmarking or working iteratively over different sessions on the interaction and allowing more than one session at a time.
Thanks. After using the Claude app, I noticed several things lacking. The ChatGPT Mac app is significantly better, IMHO.
For some reason, I expected the same from Anthropic, but the Claude app, in its current state, is quite inferior.
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#204Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the flip side, the ChatGPT desktop app is native on Mac and it's buggy and feature-incomplete compared to the web version.
100% - amazing this crap get released when "Add to Dock" is far better - zoom, copy/paste, search, font size - all works just like in normal browser. Amazingly both implementations burn 100% CPU when rendering text, which is just bonkers. Claude's web app crashes after few days and uses 30% on idle.
When rendering text, what would you expect CPU to be? For however long it takes to render, you’d expect it to max out.
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)) --- If I open Claude in Safari, Safari itself is 204MB, and the Claude tab is 640MB.
Those numbers don’t add up to 640mb. If you have 10 Claude tabs open, you’re not using 6gigs of resident memory.
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#207Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's more like 400MB due to how they're packaged. And when you could have it run with 10x to 20x less RAM, it just scream "we don't care about you". Not everyone have 64GB RAM and 22 cores of CPU in their laptop. It's like using a semi-truck (with the trailer attached) to go buy groceries 100 meters away.
The fact people prefer webapps over native locally run software because of '400MB' honestly pisses me off it's so stupidly trivial.
How is 400MB trivial? I run more than 2 programs at once, and this adds up. Imagine if every trivial process in your OS used 400MB on startup. And what pisses me off, is when I have to close resource heavy electron applications (signal, vs code) running in the background to free up RAM.
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#208Claude requires a phone nu.ber to sign up and the won't accept a Google number so they are completely un-usable. I would love to try their services, but they refuse to take my money.
In the age of eSIM, just order a free eSIM with zero credit, never charge it, never have any cost, and only enable it on your phone when a service like Anthropocene wants to send you some (completely unsecured) SMS code.
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#209Earlier 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.)
Insane, what could possibly take so much space?
Re: Claude for Desktop
#210I'm using AnythingLLM for this now. https://anythingllm.com/ MIT License on GitHub This week it got the X.ai API added which is what I'm using. Grok is not as good as Claude or ChatGPT yet, but don't bet against Elon. https://x.com/ServeTheHome/status/1850917031421399543 https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1830650370336473253 It's the desktop solution I've been looking for. If you have a heap of prompts, you can create a W…
Is there something like AnythingLLM that is a Mac native application?
https://msty.app/
(Note: it has first class support for Obsidian.md vaults.)