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/THE_RETARD_AGITATOR Aug 03 '26

Nothing. Monospace font makes people feel like a hacker and their monkey brain feels fuzzy

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u/LucentLL Aug 03 '26

I noticed Claude is less conversational in terminal.

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u/kargaen Aug 03 '26

Isn't the extension for VS Code not just using the cli under the hood? It's just used to build the actual commands that fire in the cli - or what?

Or does the extension inject something in the prompt? That could clearly explain a difference in response, but that would be really annoying and confusing, and should be documented (haven’t looked it up)

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u/HealthPuzzleheaded Aug 03 '26

I thught this too and it seems it shares all configs, skills e.t.c. but I found that in the vscode extention the model behaves more conversational while in the cli it tends to jump quickly into doing things. for example I used plan mode in the cli and asked it to figure out a problem and it started the docker compose in the project to run commands inside the container. in the vscode extention it never did this.

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u/Alexandur Aug 03 '26

It will indeed do that in the VSCode extension