Claude Code could absolutely build a chat client in the hands of someone who could also build the rest around it.

Slack itself originally ran on irc servers as the back end, and I consider it a modern IRC implementation.

bensyverson 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yeah, I have so much less patience for "this should exist" posts. In 2026, you could argue that this blog post should have come with a link to the repo.

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monsieurbanana 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I don't want everybody with an idea making a repo. It's already hard enough to filter out the slop in github that I'm reluctant about using anything built in the past year.

	▲	bensyverson 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I hear you, but it's not like the quality bar on Github was super high before AI

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troupo 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Claude Code could absolutely build a chat client in the hands of someone who could also build the rest around it.

So why can't Anthropic build a CLI client that doesn't flickr and doesn't consume 68 GB to run a CLI wrapper on top of their API? https://x.com/jarredsumner/status/2026497606575398987

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senko 10 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's still light years better than Slack.

The thing lags a few seconds while typing a message on a 20 core 128g ram machine. That's with their desktop (electron) app. Mercifully, the web app works better.

Still, CC blows it out of water. Slack is that bad.

	▲	quesera 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Something important must be different about our Slack environments. Maybe it's the number of users, or possibly the OS? We're a small company (about 150 Slack users), and I've run the Slack (Electron) app on a 16GB M2 (macOS) and a 4GB Chromebook (running a non-ChromeOS Linux), and it has never had any noteworthy performance issues. It still sucks, but not because of performance.
	▲	theshackleford 8 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		your instance does that. Mine does no such thing and I don’t know anyone for whom it does. Not to say it doesn’t, but it’s clearly not a universal issue.

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paradox460 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are using react for that

Not even joking

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brookst 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Can’t != not prioritizing

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bdangubic 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

that is 1/8 of Slack so it’d be progress :)

	▲	troupo 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Slack doesn't require nearly as much to run. And Slack has about two orders of magnitude more functionality