alt Hacker NewsThe value in Claude Code is its harness. I've tried the desktop app and found it was absolutely terrible in comparison. Like, the very nature of it being a separate codebase is already enough to completely throw off its performance compared to the CLI. Nuts.
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Mashimo • today at 6:20 AM
I thought the desktop app used the cli app in the background?
> The value in Claude Code is its harness
If this was the case then Anthropic would be in a very bad spot.
It's not, which is why people got so mad about being forced to use it rather than better third party harnesses.
Pi is better than CC as a harness in almost every respect.