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hey guys! i was wondering why you chose to build Claude code via CLI when many popular choices like cursor and windsurf fork VScode. do you envision the future
by kevinz3 2y ago
hey guys! i was wondering why you chose to build Claude code via CLI when many popular choices like cursor and windsurf fork VScode. do you envision the future of Claude code to abstract away the codebase entirely?
- bcherny 2y agoWe wanted to bring the model to people where they are without having to commit to a specific tool or radically change their workflows. We also wanted to make a way that lets people experience the model’s coding abilities as directly as possible. This has tradeoffs: it uses a lot of tokens, and is rough (eg. it shows you tool errors and model weirdness), but it also gives you a lot of power and feels pretty awesome to use.
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- unshavedyak 2y agoI like this quite a bit, thank you! I prefer Helix editor and i hate the idea of running VSCode just to access some random Code assistant