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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by greggh »

christiangenco wrote: post #49
kelnos wrote: post #44

I get that some people go that way, but to me, the fact that Claude Code is a standalone terminal app is a strength, not a weakness. I don't really want or need a GUI here. "From Terminal Chaos to Visual Clarity" doesn't resonate with me; terminals to me are simpler and more structured. At most, I've been thinking about installing one of the extensions to integrate Claude Code into (neo)vim, but even that I'm not sur…

I'm with you on desktop but I've been craving some sort of way to interact with Claude Code from my phone while I'm out and about. What I want at the core is to be able to open up access to my laptop's currently running Claude Code instance (without all these hacky backdoors that fork the chat with every message by using `--print`; I want a first class API that lets me append messages to the current chat), then I wan…

This showed up on Hacker News a few daysd ago:

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Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by hk__2 »

The wording is bit akward given that Claudia is a female given name: you can "see Claudia in action", "get started with Claudia", run things "in Claudia". At least Claude is an agent, so it makes sense to give it a human name (which btw is neutral: in France you have both men and women called "Claude").

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by LarMachinarum »

for info: "Claudia" as a name happens to be already in use by another open source project: Claudia the audio session management tool (for the JACK/LADISH APIs i.e. typically on Linux), part of the KxStudio audio tools suite by Filipe Coelho (falkTX) and the KxStudio community: https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by dcreater »

canogat wrote: post #61
sibeliuss wrote: post #3

That video on the homepage is insane... please for the sake of your amazing app, slow it down and make it less frantic! (Super rapid zooming in and out, flying all over screen at 3x speed, must cover eyes!!)

Engineers often see no value in what marketers do. This video is what they don't do.

It stuns me how bad many engineers are in basic communication.

Made something? Dont start with a long, protracted "This is how i built it from step 1". Show the damn thing! Then tell me how you built which i will be interested in only if the product is good to begin with.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by mccoyb »

commandar wrote: post #29

On 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…

There's few new ideas in this space, it's pretty boring.

How many ways can you wrap (multiple agents, worktrees, file manager, diff viewer, accept reject loops, preset specifications for agents) -- let's try Electron! Let's try Tauri! Let's try a different TUI!

What if we sat down and really thought about how these agentic IDEs should feel first instead of copy pasting the ideas to get something out to acquire market and mind share? That's significantly harder, and more worthwhile.

That's how these agentic front ends should be advertised: "Claude Code, plus _our special feature_" and then one can immediately see if the software is filled or devoid of interesting ideas.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by turtlebits »

commandar wrote: post #56
raincole wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the trend seems to be everyone developing a million disparate tools Which is super cool. Like during the dawn of web 2.0 we had lots of aggregators and forums instead of "Reddit and others." (I'm not saying it's good UX.)

To be clear: having a diversity of tools is a good thing! I like having options. My complaint is more that right now it feels like everybody is rushing to fill the exact same space with the exact same feature sets. It's resulting in a lot of superficial diversity that's functionally homogenous. I want to see more applications that are pushing the capabilities of current AI tooling in creative directions.

If you don't care about bleeding edge, most of these will fall to the wayside and a few superior options will win out.

Otherwise, you're going to see the variations on the same thing over and over, which is totally fine, and where innovation comes from.

Personally, I just use stock VS Code (copilot) and Cursor.

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by kristjansson »

rubslopes wrote: post #65

One thing that I'm missing from all of those Claude Code wrappers is the ability to search/replace and edit code. I'm mostly "vibing" nowadays, but often I face situations that editing the code by myself is faster than explaining it the AI.

The first-party CC IDE integrations (Code, JetBrains) let you edit the diff under review prior to approval. Not sure if it feeds back to the thread as a correction, or just relies on CC reading the file next time it needs to

Re: Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code

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Post by IshKebab »

LarMachinarum wrote: post #84

for info: "Claudia" as a name happens to be already in use by another open source project: Claudia the audio session management tool (for the JACK/LADISH APIs i.e. typically on Linux), part of the KxStudio audio tools suite by Filipe Coelho (falkTX) and the KxStudio community: https://kx.studio/Applications:Claudia

Nobody cares dude. It's a totally different thing. Names can overlap if the difference is obvious.

What people do care about is where names imply some relationship that isn't true. In this case the name Claudia strongly implies that this is an official Claude-related product. They'll get a cease and desist soon enough if this actually becomes popular.

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