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by troupo 100 days ago
> Claude Code could absolutely build a chat client in the hands of someone who could also build the rest around it.

So why can't Anthropic build a CLI client that doesn't flickr and doesn't consume 68 GB to run a CLI wrapper on top of their API? https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987
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senko 100 days ago
That's still light years better than Slack.

The thing lags a few seconds while typing a message on a 20 core 128g ram machine. That's with their desktop (electron) app. Mercifully, the web app works better.

Still, CC blows it out of water. Slack is that bad.

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quesera 100 days ago
Something important must be different about our Slack environments. Maybe it's the number of users, or possibly the OS?

We're a small company (about 150 Slack users), and I've run the Slack (Electron) app on a 16GB M2 (macOS) and a 4GB Chromebook (running a non-ChromeOS Linux), and it has never had any noteworthy performance issues.

It still sucks, but not because of performance.

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troupo 100 days ago
How is it "light years better than Slack"?

It's a terminal wrapper for Anthropic API. It somehow baloons to 68 gigabytes when all it needs to do is call an APi and slowly draw a few hundred characters on screen. And they can't even do that without flickering. Oh yes, and until very recently it would also consume a significant percentage of CPU just waiting for input to a slash command.

Yes, on that same 20 core 128g RAM machine.

You surely must be kidding. Slack is an amazing cutting edge high performance tech in comparison as it has about two orders of magnitude more features that a TUI API wrapper.

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theshackleford 100 days ago
your instance does that. Mine does no such thing and I don’t know anyone for whom it does.

Not to say it doesn’t, but it’s clearly not a universal issue.

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paradox460 100 days ago
They are using react for that

Not even joking

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brookst 100 days ago
Can’t != not prioritizing
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troupo 100 days ago
No. They literally can't.

E.g. they claim it's a difficult task to render a few hundred characters on screen, and that their CLI wrapper is a tiny game engine: https://x.com/trq212/status/2014051501786931427

They literally had to buy bun to have someone who understands how things work to fix this

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bdangubic 100 days ago
that is 1/8 of Slack so it’d be progress :)
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troupo 100 days ago
Slack doesn't require nearly as much to run. And Slack has about two orders of magnitude more functionality
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