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Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by BoiledCabbage »

Because Anthropic has never claimed that code is free?

It's pretty easy to argue your point if you pick a strawman as your opponent.

They have said that you can be significantly more productive (which seems to be the case for many) and that most of their company primarily uses LLM to write code and no longer write it by hand. They also seems to be doing well w.r.t. competition.

There are legitimate complaints to be made against LLMs, pick one of them - but don't make up things to argue against.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by bigstrat2003 »

827a wrote: post #13

Electron isn't that bad. Apps like VSCode and Obsidian are among the highest quality and most performant apps I have installed. The Claude app's problem is not electron; its that it just sucks, bad. Stop blaming problems on nativeness.

VSCode takes 1 GB of memory to open the same files that Sublime can do in just 200 MB. It is not remotely performant software, it sucks at performance.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P »

yodsanklai wrote: post #34

Because code isn't free. I can see it in my team. We've all been using Claude a lot for the last 6 months. It's hard to measure the impact, but I can tell our systems are as buggy as ever. AI isn't a silver bullet.

Why isn't Claude doing QA testing for you?

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by linsomniac »

Jackevansevo wrote: post #26

Because Anthropic and the rest of them are lying to you about the sophistication of these tools. The fact that claude code is a still buggy mess is a testament to the quality of the dream they're trying to sell.

>claude code is a still buggy mess

What bugs are you seeing? I use Claude Code a lot on an Ubuntu 22.04 system and I've had very few issues with it. I'm not sure really how to quantify the amount of use; maybe "ccusage" is a good metric? That says over the last month I've used $964, and I've got 6-8 months of use on it, though only the last ~3-5 at that level. And I've got fairly wide use as well: MCP, skills, agents, agent teams...

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by overgard »

awepofiwaop wrote: post #19
overgard wrote: post #14

I don't think anyone on the AI hype train cares about performance, memory usage, or code quality (measured by bugs). Customers will, though.

Judging by the state of most software I use, customers genuinely could not care less about bugs. Software quality is basically never a product differentiator at this point.

Tell that to people abandoning Windows. (I'm writing this on a Linux machine right now)

Most users are forced to use the software that they use. That doesn't mean they don't care, just that they're stuck.

BTW, this going to matter MORE now that RAM prices are skyrocketing..

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by slopinthebag »

OsrsNeedsf2P wrote: post #44
yodsanklai wrote: post #34

Because code isn't free. I can see it in my team. We've all been using Claude a lot for the last 6 months. It's hard to measure the impact, but I can tell our systems are as buggy as ever. AI isn't a silver bullet.

Why isn't Claude doing QA testing for you?

I can't tell if this is sarcasm, but if not, you cant rely on the thing that produced invalid output to validate it's own output. That is fundementally insufficient, despite it potentially catching some errors.

Re: Why is Claude an Electron app?

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Post by neodymiumphish »

alexfromapex wrote: post #37

I don't know why anyone uses Electron anymore, Tauri produces much smaller binaries and is amazing.

Agreed! I built a MacOS Postgres client with just Claude Code[1]. It could use some UI improvements, but it runs much better than other apps I’ve tried (specifically what it’s replacing for me: RazorSQL) and the binary is smaller than 20MB.

1: https://github.com/NeodymiumPhish/Pharos

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