I just want the context usage to show in the little circle down the bottom back in the web ui. The only way to show it now is a floating elements to the side which feels super janky and distracting, whereas it was perfect before in the usage popup.
Grouped by environment. If you run some locally and some in the cloud, they are not grouped.
Also if you run different repos on the same cloud environment, they are grouped.
Can't argue with that! If one hates it, then it is time to move on. I for one love this update. Orchestrator sessions have never been so capable as they are now
The app has multiple threads and subagents with one coordinating agent. I haven't found a good multiplexing system that is better. Happy to hear input.
The big benefit is you can quickly generate worktrees for each of your projects/tasks, and then organize tabs within the context of that worktree. So I've got a claude session, maybe a codex session, a raw command line (for managing my dev environment), a git manager side panel, and full IDE all isolated to this one worktree, and I'm able to instantly switch between those worktrees as needed.
It means I have one pane open with say Claude, and another one split on the middle, maybe clean terminal and one running a dev server. Then I have many tabs for each project/app/whatever. And it’s fully customisable exactly as I want it.
That being said I have colleagues that use the app version and it’s fine for them.
I think just running one CC also lets you access all sessions by pressing left arrow. But I don’t use that really.
So claude helped in browser building a phone keyboard. Then i moved to CC which was so unreliable to begin with, i lost credits due to losing connection. They didnt care about that.
then i tried Claude terminal and it pushed through a lot of stuff. Design wise I've always found ChatGPT to be the best one. Especially compared to Gemini too.
Hated it at first, but it's grown on me, particularly after seeing the daytime scheme. It's something that could have been done really badly, but they put some effort into it, particularly when clicking on the screen. To be fair, I think Claude Code welcome screens have been poorly done up to now, aesthetically speaking.
I have been evangelizing using Desktop. It use to suck and terminal was better, but for like the past month or so - it feels so much better. With mods I just don’t think there is a good reason for most people to not use it over terminal
I used to be a terminal user because it felt faster until I realized I can do all of the things and more in the desktop app (Code tab). I got tired of managing so many terminal tabs with split windows, in the app it’s so much easier and you can easily open artifacts, sub agents, simulators, web previews, but best of all is managing an endless amount of chats at once (grouped by status is the way).
This new update took some getting used to but I actually enjoy it better as it feels cleaner and better organized. Really love they split out usage limits and context, and you can customize what tabs appear in the floating panels on the right.
Is there a feature where you can start a new session on a local machine from remote? The desktop app is still missing the function of starting a machine session with the phone that is paired to that machine for /rc.
I start every session configured with /rc but I mean the vice versa. You try to start a session from the phone paired to a machine but a local process for the machine. I do this with tmux right now because the phone only gives you the option to start a cloud session.
There is a janky way to do it but you have to run the remote-control server on one session locally and then you can do this but I wish there was some toggle or config on the desktop app UI that lets you do this if this is not a feature because of security concerns.
Starting a session with RC is different than that command, you’re constrained to that session. The command allows you to start new sessions remotely and shows up as an environment.
same situation w autofix and automerge... and I can't even trust either button anymore apparently, the CI events don't even trigger autofix 70% of the time now
Looks like they removed the worktree checkbox and every new session starts in a new separate worktree now. Am I missing something? Otherwise this is a big crock of shit
It’s hidden inside of the environment setting and also branches are hidden in there as well. UI change made me switch to T3 cuz what the hell anthropic
Love this update and quite a significant one, makes it easier to use and looks better - the background motion is kinda cool. But they move the context window to the sidebar away from the limits seems kinda confusing 🫤
I boot on PC, go to cursor and open a new terminal, type "rc Claude" and do 90% of my personal work on my phone (at my actual job). Maybe like 10% on the actual PC.
Zed is more of an IDE than an agent manager. What I particularly like is how seamlessly it integrates with development containers. It handles building, starting, and connecting to containers, so I can open a project and have the entire development environment ready.
On top of that, it provides a single UI for Claude Code conversations, file viewing/editing, shell access, Git control, and project navigation. VS Code can do this too, of course, but I prefer Zed’s speed, lightweight design, and native macOS experience.
The app is the gateway for a lot of folks, myself included.
The coding app has the benefit of being able to mold the UI to present questions in a more natural manner. If Claude Code is asking questions, it shows me decision cards, formats and organizes the questions so that they're more digestible than just text.
The windows app has a small slider to go from chat/cowork to claude code. The experience of code is very similar to chat/cowork.
Gosh yes. Using the actual Claude code app (TUI) is faster, lighter, easier to split window and manage multiple sessions. I don't really know why you'd use the code mode in Claude desktop tbh?
I don't know if you're dumping on the app knowingly, but the things you describe are clearly easier on a GUI... like the app we're discussing.
Splitting sessions? One click, GUI splits, you can resize windows. Just because you may have memorized keyboard combos doesn't make that the better way. Ultimately, I think it' just people/users backing what they know,
Questions, input requests, output text can be formatted and displayed in a less plain text way. This aids comprehension and uptake speed.
ummmm easy access to old chats within each repo, managing multiple chats on the sidebar instead of trying to remember which quarter screen sized terminal window had which chat
Every major desktop app update I try it again, but I keep coming across odd bugs and having to switch back to terminal. The biggest issue I have is when I have an orchestration main thread running multiple sub agents, they just.. die, like the main agent waits and then like 30 min later I see still hanging out and ask the main thread and it’s like “the agent’s last response was 12 minutes ago, it might be hung”. About 20% of the multi-agent prompts have some issue and I’ve only had an issue once in the console and that was because I hit my limit and everything went to shit after the 1h cache clear.
I really like Warp, what do you use? Or you still raw dogging Terminal/Powershell? :)
I love the save layouts feature. I have all my projects set up to quickly open everything I need. Some projects have 1 repo and that’s all it is, a single terminal in the correct directory ready to go. And some projects have 3 repos, each with its own terminal, and a spare terminal to run commands and look at things. It just works, I’m in with everything laid out and predictive commands (like running Claude with my switches). I even have project profiles for running on each of my monitors. Sometimes I’m dialed in on my main ultra wide and sometimes I’m gaming or remoted in to a server on the main monitor so I have profiles to run it on my portrait 4k to the side.
I’m sure others have these features, and I’m sure (from the comments I’ve read) that others are better, but I’m in my happy zone with Warp. I don’t even use all the fancy theme stuff either, just straight black terminals. I have decades of dev experience but console use always seemed archaic to me, so when AI first got big I was in VS Code for everything. It was amazing till it wasn’t (bugs) and I begrudgingly started to learn cli interfaces to things I never bothered to learn before. Got hooked.
I miss the filter to see my archived sessions per folder. Plus, the update made some of my active sessions gone, I cannot find them on the side bar. Anyone else?
Hey thanks, this is basically what Claude told me as well, only there is no "Sessions" for me.. even if it makes me look a little foolish, could you maybe DM me a screenshot of your view and mark were to even see "all sessions"?... I swear there is no such thing for me all I got under Claude Code ist Artifacts, Routines, some other shit and the Grouping
It was tricky to find. It also said me Sessions, but the true option is "View all". You hover over one of your environments, open the filter, and click it.
session rail is a terrible idea, before you had all info in one line now I need to use half my horizontal space to show context usage / PR / PR status / autofix / automerge it's so annoying and I found autofix and automerge is also flaky...
Only reason I dont use cli is because of Windows. CLI on windows is somehow always outdated for me and has delayed model support even after updating.... Mac terminal is where its at.
I feel like the new way they have projects is actually a big deal. Isn’t each project basically just an agent, like a “dot”? I really think the Claude app has essentially the Agent stuff already in it, they may just need to do a better job pitching it.
I am having a hard time understanding the projects change. My employer is an anthropic partner and we have had projects for a long time. For me they provide direct context. In code I use work streams and directories as "projects". What am I missing?
Was actually annoying me just recently how there was no way to choose how many sessions were shown under each project so your entire sidebar would be taken up by one project's many sessions, so glad they fixed that
This is a terrible update. Creating a project now takes longer. They’ve moved parts of the interface into separate blocks and changed how statistics are displayed. I want to roll back to the old version.
I doubt this is convenient for them, either. They also removed the overall usage statistics from the main page - and these grouped chat threads, who even asked for those? Why change something that was working perfectly fine? These are rhetorical questions.
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