Classic Anthropic, this comes across as LLM coded nonsense.
Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
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Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
They are moving at breakneck speed deploying on scales most of us can't even imagine. They are working in a space that's completely unexplored where getting information as quickly as possible is preferred above iterating on some feature until it's "done" while your competitor has released fifteen other features, all sucky, but one of which turns out to be a killer and makes a billion bucks overnight.
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Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#53I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
They vibecoded it, and admitted as much. Once it was able to self-vibecode, that's all they did. That's why it's written in React and uses gigabytes of RAM as a chat client.
Not only did they decide to write a terminal application in React, but it's 500K lines of code. It's strange because I'm sure Claude is capable of writing a decent TUI in C. It says a lot about the engineering culture at Anthropic, at least on the software side.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#54I’ve stopped using Claude on the desktop, just because of how slow the app is to start up and interact with. It’s an absolute clunker; I’m mystified why they can’t ship something that works well given their rhetoric about ai.
They vibecoded it, and admitted as much. Once it was able to self-vibecode, that's all they did. That's why it's written in React and uses gigabytes of RAM as a chat client.
You say that as if somehow the trend for cross platform desktop apps to be ridiculously bloated bundles of browser overlays is new?
What major cross platform app isn't based on Electron or Tauri? Slack, Discord, VS Code, Teams, Notion...
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
They vibecoded it, and admitted as much. Once it was able to self-vibecode, that's all they did. That's why it's written in React and uses gigabytes of RAM as a chat client.
Not only did they decide to write a terminal application in React, but it's 500K lines of code. It's strange because I'm sure Claude is capable of writing a decent TUI in C. It says a lot about the engineering culture at Anthropic, at least on the software side.
This is about the desktop app, not the claude code TUI
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#56i had to uninstall it due to the vm taking around 12G of disk, never touched Cowork. didn't realize they were also launching it
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#57Isn’t it good that it spins up without no way of stopping it? Why would it be a problem that we do have a way of stopping it?
This question is answered by the post? There is reportedly actually no way of stopping it happen. Perhaps the poster had a brain fart while typing it. Maybe they speak a different dialect of English from you.
There's no dialect of English in which this is correct.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#58They must not have used Fable 5 to vibecode that part of Claude Desktop, VMs are strictly forbidden high stakes cybersecurity work.
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's looking like a slightly updated reskin of chromeOS with gemini features built in. Definitely not a developer machine based on how they presented it in google IO. So if you write software, it's not looking like it'll be relevant whatsoever. I hope to be proven wrong.
If everything is in the cloud and you are just prompting agents to code for you, what exactly is “a developer machine”?
I'm obviously not just prompting agents for everything. What are you on about?
Why would I build my little web-apps and backends in the cloud when I can run things faster locally?
Re: Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use
#60The VM itself is for Claude Cowork which does all work within the VM sandbox. That doesn't help answer why they spin it up immediately and don't have a way to disable it though. Just the "why it exists" question.
If you're not going to give Claude access to anything on your machine, why are you using Desktop instead of web chat? (Real question, I don't use these much!) If you are, obviously you need the VM.
It mounts specified directories into the vm from what I remember