macbook pro m4 bought last year. worked on so many codes and projects. never hot after closing lid. installed electron claude. closed lid and went to sleep and woke up to macbook that has been hot all night. uninstall claude. problem went away.

i kept telling myself this BUT NEVER ELECTRON AGAIN.

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lxgr 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

To be fair, ChatGPT seems to be a native app and still somehow managed to continuously burn some 30-40% of CPU on my mac that ended up being attributable to some shimmer animation for two never-loading icons.

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bigyabai 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I don't know if Electron is the issue here, my Wintel machine has Claude Code running 24/7 and doesn't ever heat up.

Might be virtualization woes or something adjacent.

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DauntingPear7 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s not electron

	▲	woadwarrior01 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		The macOS Claude app is absolutely an electron app, which is what the github issue in this post is about. If you'd like to verify for yourself: On your mac, right click on the Claude app icon and click on "Show Package Contents" and then navigate to Contents > Frameworks > Electron Framework.framework.
	▲	rvz 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yes it certainly is.

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hulitu 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> woke up to macbook that has been hot all night

this is usual reason for divorce /s