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herval | 27 days ago

It’s just irrelevant for most users. These companies are getting more adoption than they can handle, no matter how clunky their desktop apps are. They’re optimizing for experimentation. Not performance.

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preston-kwei|27 days ago

While this may be true for casual users, for dev native products like Codex, the desktop experience actually matters a lot. When you are living in the tool for hours, latency, keyboard handling, file system access, and OS-level integration stop being “nice to have” and start affecting real productivity. web or Electron apps are fine for experimentation, but they hit a ceiling fast for serious workflows -- especially if the icp is mostly technical users

Xenoamorphous|27 days ago

VSCode is arguably one of the most if not the most popular code editor these days…

tokioyoyo|27 days ago

Still good enough for the majority of the users.

csomar|27 days ago

It's not irrelevant for developers neither for users. Tiktok has shown that users deeply care about the experience and they'll flock en-masse to something that has a good experience.

ramraj07|27 days ago

The experience in the claude app is fine.

IhateAI|27 days ago

More adoption? I don't think so... It feels to me that these models && tools are getting more verbose/consuming more tokens to compensate for a decrease in usage. I know my usage of these tools has fallen off a cliff as it become glaringly obvious they're useful in very limited scopes.

I think most people start off overusing these tools, then they find the few small things that genuinely improve their workflows which tend to be isolated and small tasks.

Moltbot et al, to me, seems like a psyop by these companies to get token consumption back to levels that justify the investments they need. The clock is ticking, they need more money.

I'd put my money on token prices doubling to tripling over the next 12-24 months.

deaux|27 days ago

> I'd put my money on token prices doubling to tripling over the next 12-24 months.

Chinese open weights models make this completely infeasible.

pilgrim0|27 days ago

I suspect making the models more verbose is also a source of inflation. You’d expect an advanced model to nail down the problem succinctly, rather than spawning a swarm of agents that brute force something resembling an answer. Biggest scam ever.