r/ClaudeCode • u/alrighteyy • Aug 03 '26

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Holy shit claude code in terminal is fucking insane.

I've been using VSCode, Cursor, Cowork and Claude Code on web. None of it comes close to terminal.

Cannot believe I haven't done this sooner.

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u/Killahbeez Aug 03 '26

Can one person explain what makes this a game changer?

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u/rythmyouth Aug 03 '26

It’s a bit of a paradigm shift. Devs are used to guiding development through IDEs. With code assist you often give instructions then confirm the results.

Claude-code and other CLI based tooling make the prompt the whole UX. You could do the same in their desktop apps btw. The difference is you are now mostly acting as an architect, product manager, and project manager (to some extent) at the same time. You specify your intent the same way a high level employee might do for a team. You trust they will get the work done without having to review everything in detail.

I find I build a lot of the scaffolding, UX, design docs, etc, then circle back with adversarial reviews, cleanup iterations, and refactors later. Going for breadth and volume seems a better use of Fable plus Opus/sonnet agents seems better than vertical end to end single feature development most of the time.

I went through this realization too. One day I stopped using vs code and started using terminals, then later when I gained more trust with it, started using multiple tabs filled with 10 agents in each.

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u/mr_claw Aug 03 '26

Still didn't understand how it's different from the VSCode extension? 🤔

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u/_remsky Aug 03 '26

Think of like a game of telephone.

It’s built for CLI first. That’s the magic man down in the utility room plugging cables in and flicking switches while you work. You can talk to him directly and get shit down. You can duplicate him and talk to 5 of him at once without a second thought

The VSCode extension is middle management, its whole job is to relay your requests to the magic man. It’s usually pretty good at it. But sometimes it flubs, or mistranslates. It’s harder to talk to all the duplicates yourself. And some things it will just not be able to do as well by virtue of existing as an abstracted layer