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Duet is the future of chatbot interaction

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In short

The tool automatically organizes sessions into distinct channels that can reference each other while maintaining strict project hierarchies. Security is enhanced because Duet avoids handling direct user credentials, relying instead on Claude's connector ecosystem to isolate resources like GitHub repositories by channel. A dedicated desktop application also provides sandboxed environments with limited local host access for testing and deployment tasks. However, the system is still in beta and faces technical hurdles like hidden running threads and inferior voice capabilities.

Key points

  • Restricted channel permissions safeguard project resources by removing the need to share…: Restricted channel permissions safeguard project resources by removing the need to share direct user credentials.
  • Persistent beta glitches such as hidden active threads and repository attachment failures…: Persistent beta glitches such as hidden active threads and repository attachment failures continue to affect user reliability.
  • Anthropic lags behind conversational voice competitors like Dot because its audio feature…: Anthropic lags behind conversational voice competitors like Dot because its audio features remain limited to basic speech-to-text.

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Look, I really didn’t want to like Duet. I don’t want to be an Anthropic fanboy and it annoys me when they do things better than the competition. But they have done it again.

I have given serious effort to Muse, Dot, NanoClaw, and a host of other personal-assistant-type harnesses. Duet is the first one that felt more useful than tedious, and it feels like a serious evolution of the chat experience rather than another “give me all your credentials to be useful” agent. Here’s why I like it so far.

1. It’s fast

Other assistant apps are always doing who-the-hell-knows-what in the background while I wait for a response. Duet clearly prioritizes getting a snappy response to the user even if background work is needed. It’s supposedly powered by Opus 5.5, but I’ve never seen Opus move this fast in other Claude UIs. Clearly some tuning went on here. This is critical to be a useful assistant: If you want to be my shell to the world, I am not going…

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