I really love the idea of Claude Desktop, but it feels like it is getting heavier, slower, and more buggy almost every week. Am I alone here? It feels like a brilliant implementation that is being added to and never performance optimized nor very well tested. On a Macbook pro M4 with 48Gi of ram (and very little else running), in Texas w/ 8GiB of Google Fiber… it’s not unusual for switching chats to be a 10 second laggy process where chats disappear, reappear, and the app re-renders. CC desktop routinely loses “connection” in the sense that it will be “thinking” for 10 minutes and clearly has lost it’s connection even though it’s still “thinking”… Usually a nudge (or a stop + a message) results in the bot coming back to life… But frankly, it’s just not good enough to use reliably. Good news though, the terminal based CLI seems to be largely immune from these issues for now and frankly the code quality from the terminal is immensely better, no idea what happened in desktop, but if Anthropic wants us to use the desktop tool, it’s gotta be functional. submitted by /u/thatguyinline
Originally posted by u/thatguyinline on r/ClaudeCode