alt Hacker NewsI said relatively simple. It is mostly an API interface with Anthropic models, with tool calling on top of it, very simple input and output.
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9dev • yesterday at 8:58 PM
I’m pretty certain you haven’t used it yet(to its fullest extent) then. Claude Code is easily one of the most complex terminal UIs I have seen yet.
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With extensibility via plugins, MCP (stdio and http), UI to prompt the user for choices and redirection, tools to manage and view context, and on and on.
It is not at all a small app, at least as far as UX surface area. There are, what, 40ish slash commands? Each one is an opportunity for bugs and feature gaps.