alt Hacker NewsI do not like terminal tui much as I think it's a poor fit for a coding agent.
But I do use claude code tui because I have a sub: it is a good model and I like its aesthetics. If I could use the sub in my own harness I would. It's also a foil to GPT's models that overengineer everything.
I have a Codex subscription that I use in my own harness, dreamcoder.ai, which has a tiling window manager and all the other mod cons you'd expect a frontier harness to have.
In addition to that, I run Qwen 3.8 27B NVFP4 with ninfer on my 5090. It's a great model for local development. I also use that in dreamcoder.
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Can you not? I built a custom harness that uses my Claude subscription. You can pass -p I think is the flag, to feed it a prompt. And it’s been a little while so I don’t fully remember how but you can also have it print the output to stdout. I even pass it custom tools as args and it works with the cache, and you can even append messages to conversations
> I do not like terminal tui much as I think it's a poor fit for a coding agent
I recently moved away from using tui to directly interact with claude code.
I still start a session in the terminal but then ask to start a simple jira- like ticketing system.
When I have a request I start a new ticket and claude decides to either do it or launch a sub agent to do it.
When claude is done or has questions- he replies in the ticket. When claude has a side-findings he creates a new ticket for me.