New features and freshly fixed bugs all land in the CLI first, so the CLI is the native, first-class environment. Remote control? You’ll be waiting until the cows come home for an update.
Uh, let me give an example. In the early days of the remote control environment, typing a slash didn’t bring up the SKILL menu, so unless you remembered a skill’s full name, you couldn’t call it. That only got fixed three months after remote control shipped.
They’re all Anthropic-native, but parents play favorites even among their own kids. The CLI updates most often, roughly daily (because the staff use it themselves). Desktop used to be slow, then the big revamp came and updates picked up. Everything else just crawls. Search the CHANGELOG for remote control and you’ll see how often anything related to it gets fixed.
So if you’re already used to the CLI on your machine at home, isn’t mirroring that CLI straight to a mobile device the most convenient thing?
Why not use the official Claude / Codex cloud control apps on the phone?
Because who knows when they’ll ever ship split pane…
And here’s another odd thing. The Claude Code CLI, which used to update daily, has now gone 8 days without an update. Issues are still holding steady around five thousand even after the bot’s aggressive deduping, so it’s not like there are no bugs left to fix.
Are they sitting on something big, or did something drastic shift internally? No idea at this point.
Quite a gap from the AI self-healing workflow they were promoting so hard. With this company, what they say and what they do are two separate accounts.