I do 20% dev work and 80% working with documents and spreadsheets.
Just dragging a pile of docs in Claude code to review is just a drag. Nothing else.
In desktop you can add the folder to the project. Sometimes Claude complaints that it can’t manipulate the folder for whatever reason and I don’t have time for that. If you try uploading files, there are limits. You have to zip them and so on.
Claude code in terminal, none of that.
I had to work on 1TB of files a few months ago and just dragged the folder. Claude code spun up 438 agents and got to work.
Claude desktop would have craped out. I don’t know if it’s the electron app vs cli.
At the end of the day everyone uses what works for their workflow.
For me this works like a reliable coworker.
You know how they say "never read the comments"? You should see the Hacker News ones in response to @Scott_Helme's post, strap yourself in, here are some highlights: