I love Claude but both the desktop and the web apps are incredibly janky when compared with their OpenAI counterparts (I won’t even comment on Gemini’s because it’s also incredibly broken and unreliable).

Start times are atrocious, long conversations literally break rendering (and I’m using the desktop app on a MacBook Pro with an M3 Pro CPU and 36 GB of RAM so an electron app shouldn’t feel so janky so frequently, right?).

IMHO they just don’t care right now (and I get it from their perspective) but I’m pretty sure there’s a lot of low hanging fruit they could fix to make the experience 5x or even 10x smoother. Claude Code (TUI) is also another memory hog and I’ve even had Ghostty literally crash with enough open sessions.

Fortunately Anthropic models are also incredibly so at least I’ve been able to speedrun my own desktop client using Tauri and fix many of the issues I encounter every day. I might release it at some point.