Someone saw my screen mid-session and asked what IDE I was using

I was on a video call, sharing my screen, working through a backend feature. Someone interrupted: "wait, hold on -- what is that you're using?" I said Claude Code. They'd heard of it but hadn't see...

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Someone saw my screen mid-session and asked what IDE I was using

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I was on a video call, sharing my screen, working through a backend feature. Someone interrupted: "wait, hold on -- what is that you're using?" I said Claude Code. They'd heard of it but hadn't seen anyone working in it that way before. The interface they were looking at was Claudx. And it's the reason I still get that question regularly from people who catch a glimpse of my screen. The background I moved over to Claude Code maybe six months ago. It replaced most of what I was doing in Cursor and VS Code. The workflow is faster, the context management is better, and for backend work especially it removed a lot of the friction I was used to dealing with. But I kept missing one thing: the Codex interface. Not the model -- the layout. The way you could see your prompt on the left, the file tree, the diff, the output, all at once without jumping around. Claude Code runs in the terminal. That's the point -- it's lean, it stays out of the way. But the terminal is also one-dimensional. You're

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