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Claude Desktop vs CLI: Why I Still Use the Terminal After the Redesign

Claude released a redesigned desktop application — better looking, friendlier for newcomers. But if you ask me which one to use, the answer is still CLI. Not nostalgia, just feature gap and resource efficiency.

This post has been merged into A Year In, My Answer to “Terminal or Desktop App?” Has Changed Three Times. All of the original content lives there now, and that’s the only copy that gets updated.


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