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53 performance fixes for the desktop app
Reconnecting after a flaky connection fell from 60 seconds to 0.7, per the team.
Grok Bot's desktop app got 53 performance fixes over a few days, Lauren Tan, who works on Grok Bot, wrote on Sep 22. The @bot account shared the post.
Her numbers: reconnecting after a flaky connection dropped from 60 seconds to 0.7 seconds, and waking your laptop from 23 seconds to 1. The Media tab no longer re-downloads every time, which cut 137MB to 0.7MB.
| Series | Switch to a Bot's Computer view | Open a chat with a long code block |
|---|---|---|
| Before | 868 | 954 |
| After | 27 | 228 |
On Sep 7 she had reported a cold start to a usable shell that was 247ms (18%) faster.
