Terminal or editor-first UI? How do you prefer to work with AI coding agents?
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Actually - maybe an unpopular 4th choice - I've been using the Claude desktop app quite a bit lately. Having used the CLI mostly, I'm finding that the desktop app is actually pretty nice.
@tnum great point. I suppose Claude Desktop, and related products like @Axel, @Superset, and @OpenAI's Codex, could fit in the terminal-first category, more "zoomed out" from the code.
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i like useing Vscode so i can see the documents. And deploy within terminals also. It's great
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Actually - maybe an unpopular 4th choice - I've been using the Claude desktop app quite a bit lately. Having used the CLI mostly, I'm finding that the desktop app is actually pretty nice.
@tnum great point. I suppose Claude Desktop, and related products like @Axel, @Superset, and @OpenAI's Codex, could fit in the terminal-first category, more "zoomed out" from the code.
i like useing Vscode so i can see the documents. And deploy within terminals also. It's great
@cindy34 definitely both!
I think IDE is too heavy, and CLI is lightweight and simple. But many times I have to use IDE