In my opinion, not everything requires a native app. AI Chat assistants are completely fine to be used in the web browser. for most used applications like slack, I do have native application( even slack which is website in a shell is completely usable as a desktop application). What i really don't understand is the benefit of a ChatGPT native application other than native widgets instead of web elements.

I found Goose (by Block) - https://block.github.io/goose - much better in this regard. Granted it perhaps doesn't have the app tie ins that most other providers do, but I can kinda just ask it to perform tasks in a specific kind of folder and it does, using whatever provider I want.

I got the GLM coding plan earlier, and given its generous rate limits, I found using it to do tedious tasks (like folder organization, which is perhaps my greatest weakness; especially Downloads) was a true addition to my productivity.

I feel there's a lot of scope for applications to focus on task contexts (with/without code agents having a ton of files like AGENTS.md, CRUSH.md, CURSOR.md spammed around) in specific folder bounds with proper user sandboxing.

The problem is, chatgpt for mac isn't better then the web version. I've tried to use it and always go back to the web.

Anyway, generally it is nice on MacOS. If the text (chat) field has focus though I have to click twice for some reason in ChatGPT's responses to get to where I can select/copy text. Odd.

So, sure, it could be better (more native?).