alt Hacker NewsI thought the TUI was the ultimate power tool and loved the original embrace from claude code. I still use TUI a lot, but have been using deepseek harness web app atop my local model and am already liking the better organization and UI of this interface. I can see my load shifting to it. But you are right, you almost always need a VS Code interface open as well.
The outputs of Opus 5.5 were so much easier to read, but I do find the the deepseek web based tool much easier to comprehend for some reason. Plus I can access it from phone (over tailscale) as well when out and about and continue sessions very easily. AND it is all open source/weights. I'm pretty thrilled, but it's been less than a week.
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I've been using deepseek lately (just the chat interface on hobby stuff) and it's frankly better at searching the web and writes less like it's trying to bullshit its way through pretending to know what it's doing, i think it is just easier to understand. Unfortunately it also is more often wrong, or more often writes bugs, but i guess in a harness that's kinda mitigated -- it does usually find its earlier mistakes ime
Claude Web app includes Claude code tab with remote option to work from your own machine (if preferred). I am using it very often.
I have a project folder which is my default environment, and within it I have my many repo clones. That way I can work on any project from my prompt and reference elements in one project to include in another.
I continue to get good results using lifeOS (though I don't use the entire setup) https://github.com/danielmiessler/LifeOS