Comment by Tractor8626
3 hours ago
There is one requirement which is more important than performance: Software should exist in reality, not in imagination.
You could dream all you want about how you would write better version of claude desktop. Fact is: you didn't. And you never will.
> You could dream all you want about how you would write better version of claude desktop. Fact is: you didn't. And you never will.
I already did, actually. I work in an LLM startup that produces small models for specialised purposes and I wrote our frontend interfaces, which are vastly superior to both Codex and Claude's interfaces. Unlike OpenAI and Anthropic, we are profitable, turning 8-digit revenue with zero outside investment. We have complete ownership, without tens~hundreds of billions in expenses and debt. Excellence in software still has a place in the world, even if the VC darlings get most of the attention, because at the end of the day consumers and enterprises alike will pay for software that truly works well.
Unless your frontend can be used instead of claude desktop you didn't built better claude desktop. You built something different.
I didn't said what you can't. I said you didn't.
It can be, and I personally use it with my Codex subscription as well. Model interchangeability in an interface is completely trivial.