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		dns_snek 88 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web Claude Code is a Terminal User Interface, not a Command Line Interface.

_joel 88 days ago [–]

Well, it is if you just run

claude -p "Question goes here"

As that will print the answer only and exit.

dns_snek 88 days ago | [–]

But that's not how it's typically used, it's predominantly used in TUI mode so the popularity of CC doesn't tell us anything about popularity of the CLI.

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