[stephencoyner]

Native desktop apps give these companies access to more system-level functions which will be super useful for...

- Voice dictation / interactions

- Agents accessing other applications and controlling your desktop

- Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis

I would expect to see these kind of features start to take off next year

[lambdaba]

Oh I agree, but this is definitely not it, I don't understand why Anthropic released this, other than squatting the same keyboard shortcut the ChatGPT app uses, with no ability to change it :P.

[miguelspizza]

Chat UIs are really the perfect candidate for a localfirst PWA. I have no idea why they are being built as either a full desktop app or UI where nothing is stored on device.

You’d think with all the funding these companies have they’d make better technical decisions

[kristjansson]

The shortcut can be changed. Open the app settings from the menu bar, or the usual Command-, shortcut, and it's the only setting they expose.

[stephencoyner]

By not it, do you mean those features aren’t available yet, or you don’t see the value in them?

[lambdaba]

I do see value, but the Claude app is just a webview with a keyboard shortcut, I don't even think it has voice dictation, I uninstalled it immediately.

[freedomben]

You're not wrong, but I'm willing to guess the biggest reason is: Analytics

[alwayslikethis]

You can also do a filesystem scan pretty easily. Both for useful features, as well as spying.

[dzhiurgis]

That requires user to accept permissions (which lately macos giving so many popups made me fatigued and accept everything)

[ethbr1]

Also data mining! :)

[nicce]

> - Agents performing background tasks like continuous monitoring, periodic data processing, or ongoing analysis

Who said that this was to help the end user!

[moffkalast]

Hmm yes, I don't see any issues giving a corporate controlled model with the operational precision of a coin toss full access to my entire system. There is absolutely nothing that could ever go wrong.

Nah but seriously, can we start a counter of how many times a chatbot agent has deleted someone's system32 because it was trained on data of the average tech forum?