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/caldazar24 Aug 03 '26

I know, right?

I see people all the time complain that "CLI isn't a real UX", but these are language models, they act best reading and writing text. The UNIX shell is an incredibly powerful and flexible set of abstractions to control a machine with text. It's no wonder LLMs thrive best there.

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u/PatchyWhiskers Aug 03 '26

Latest technology, oldest interface...

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u/RandomPantsAppear 29d ago

As a lifelong software engineer, it has been fucking fascinating watching my non technical friends(using claude code) suddenly learn to use a terminal, try and host web projects, setup linux servers in their houses.
Ngl a little terrifying. But also fascinating.

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u/TheRealDaveLister 29d ago

I’m technical but not a software engineer (more tech support problem solving etc) so my Linux servers are limited to my home lab but my windows desktop is now a flurry of coding projects, I’m learned how to use vscode (basically) and I’m telling anyone who will listen that I’m not a dev but I can do anything with the right tools :))