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Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#212I just claude would'nt be so slooooow...
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#213Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the thing is that most of the people implementing stuff for Claude have already realized it’s just the best option available for… basically everything. I’ve switched to different models before, but I always come back to Sonnet or Opus for doing anything sensible.
Claude may be arguably the best model, but why decide unilaterally for your users that they _have_ to use it? If there's no particular feature that only Claude offers, this is just needless vendor lock-in. And what happens if another lab releases a model that suddenly trounces Claude at coding? Your users will leave for an app that supports the new hotness, and you won't be able to keep them because of a short-sighte…
Because Claude code does offer particular features. More important than “features” is the fact that it works and does the things you want like 60-70% of the time, with guardrails and practice and attention. Which is way better than competing tools.
Besides that. These tools are changing so fast that to build an agent agnostic tool would be insane given the speed and market pressures right now. Why support roo or cline or cursor cli if it adds 3x engineering cost for 20% more market reach? The reality is there are no standards around the way the actual leading tools work if you wanna build something on Claude/codex/(insert flavor of the week).
Gotta pick your horse and try to hang on, and hope you picked right.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#214Earlier 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.
Both Roo and Continue support local modals (via LM Studio). For Continue, you add a fake account (type in literally anything) and then click 'edit' -- it will take you to the settings JSON, and you can type in LM Studio as your source.
The main problem I'm seeing, is that a lot of the tooling doesn't work as well "agentically" with the models. (Most of these tools say something like 'works best with Claude, tested with Claude, good luck with any local models'). The local models via LM Studio already works really well for pure chat, but occasionally trip up semi-regularly on basic things, like writing files or running commands -- stuff that say, GitHub Copilot has mostly already polished.
But those are basically just bugs in tooling that will likely get fixed. The local-only setup is behind the current commercial market -- but not much behind.
I strongly agree with the commenter above, if the commercial models and tooling slow down at any point, the free/open models and tooling will absolutely catch up -- I'd guess within 9 months or so.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#215If the app is as elegant as the website I have to pass. The menubar is hidden at the start - and also when you scroll back up. FAQ and Github Stars menu items are overlapping, so you could be clicking the wrong one. The icon looks like a light/dark theme switcher, but is not. Actually there is no light theme at all on the webpage, which depending on your environment can make it hard to read. I'm assuming the app is the same. Looks like I'm too old or not the target audience or both.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#216Earlier quoted context omitted.
May I know what the other 2 tools are?
If the "on the go" experience is important to you, i.e. you actually want some care and intention put into the phone experience. There are 4 apps I'm aware of: - Happy Claude Code Client: open source (MIT) effort for a quality mobile app - Omnara: closed source mobile app, $9/month - CodeRemote: closed source mobile app, $49/month - Kisuke: closed source mobile app, private beta, unknown price If you know of others,…
Has anyone put together a comparison table for Desktop apps?
I’ve started using conductor.build and it feels nice, but would happily evaluate others.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#217On 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…
I mean technically you can use Claude Code Router and then use any LLM with Claudia
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#218No Windows support :(
There's Github issues mentioning windows so someone is trying to build it.
But yeah - I need to bounce between multiple OS so I avoid tools that don't run on all major desktop platforms.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#219Did not realise this was a third party company until i read here, I'm very surprised they're allowed to get that close to the branding without an infringement.
Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
#220On 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…
Yeah, I am quite exhausted at this point by this. I just look at it, blink, and move on.
By the way, I did not wait for the Claudia demo to load, I was on the website for like 10 seconds, still did not load so... okay then.