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Anthropic Rebuilds Claude Code Desktop App Around Parallel Sessions

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Anthropic has released a redesigned Claude Code experience for its Claude desktop app, bringing in a new sidebar for managing multiple sessions, a drag-and-drop layout for arranging the workspace, and more.

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The new sidebar displays every active and recent session in one place, and users can filter by status, project, or environment, with the option to group sessions by project. A new side chat shortcut (Command + 😉 also lets users branch a question off a running task without feeding extra context back into the main thread.

Anthropic has also dropped more of the developer workflow into the app itself. There's now an integrated terminal for running tests and builds, an in-app file editor for spot edits, a rebuilt diff viewer aimed at large changesets, and an expanded preview pane that handles HTML files and PDFs alongside local app servers. Each pane is also drag-and-drop friendly, so the layout can be arranged to suit.

In addition, the desktop app now matches Claude Code's CLI for plugin support, while SSH sessions are supported on Mac as well as Linux. Lastly, there are three view modes (Verbose, Normal, and Summary) that let users decide how much of Claude's tool-call activity they want to see.

The Claude desktop app update is rolling out now to Claude Code users on Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans.


In related news, Anthropic also announced Routines – a new way to set up Claude Code automations that run without an active session. A routine bundles a prompt, a repo, and any relevant connectors into a single configuration that can run on a schedule, fire from an API call, or trigger off a GitHub event such as a new pull request.

Routines run on Claude Code's web infrastructure rather than a local machine, but Anthropic has put in place daily run caps that scale by plan. Routines are available in research preview to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users with Claude Code on the web enabled. For further details, check out Anthropic's blog post.

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Great! I was about to install it… Just in time! Hopefully the next improvements are aimed at Cowork.
 
rodpascoe said:
Until they fix there rate limiting which they nerfed just a few weeks ago then Claude is pretty much useless for serious use.

Like many users I was hitting a message saying I’d used all my usage within the first hour of use.
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The rate limiting will get worse, not better. Those on the Max plan have quantified that they're getting $5000 worth of monthly usage for the $200 price tag. Something has to give.
 
McScooby said:
Am guessing not the Pro. Was crunching through the base paid tier when using Opus, & paid for extra, which went fast. Upgraded to Pro and now happily mix & match between the 2, have only hit the limit (restricted for a few hrs) on one occasion in about a month.
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You're guessing wrong. I was on the Pro plan and then upgraded to the £90 a month plan when I started getting maxed, that too gets limited within hours of we starting work.

Take a look at the Claude subreddit r/ClaudeAI and you'll see thousands of people like me all frustrated that our plan limits have been slashed massively in the last few weeks.
 
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I got within 97% of Max $200 before the clock reset. Opus 4.7 is probably coming soon so things are a little wonky.

I really wish there was a $300 or $400 tier, the API cost is insane (even if it is more profitable).
 
Yep, for good or bad, AI is about profit, instead of making the world a better place. The AI drug dealers are getting us hooked on the free bag, and are starting to want their payment...
 
rodpascoe said:
Until they fix there rate limiting which they nerfed just a few weeks ago then Claude is pretty much useless for serious use.

Like many users I was hitting a message saying I’d used all my usage within the first hour of use.
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This is the reason I canceled Claude and moved to Codex. I was hitting the rate limit on the Pro Plan in roughly 30 minutes. I’d wait and then try again, and I’d hit the rate limit again really quickly.. wasn’t useful to me in any way.


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Really good 👍 ChatGPT is dead
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Ummmm… no. I switched from Claude to Codex and within just a couple months I’ve managed to build an entire app and get it on TestFlight and am hopefully going to be ready for the App Store this Summer. ChatGPT is far from dead…
 
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rodpascoe said:
Until they fix there rate limiting which they nerfed just a few weeks ago then Claude is pretty much useless for serious use.

Like many users I was hitting a message saying I’d used all my usage within the first hour of use.
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I don't use Claude Code, but I use Claude Pro and for whatever reason it'll be mid-way through working out my prompt then unexpectedly stop. I'll get it to go again, it works fine, and then it immediately hits me with the notice saying my usage is used... half my experiences so far with Claude have been like this and it's frustrating. I'm not even a heavy user
 
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rodpascoe said:
You're guessing wrong. I was on the Pro plan and then upgraded to the £90 a month plan when I started getting maxed, that too gets limited within hours of we starting work.

Take a look at the Claude subreddit r/ClaudeAI and you'll see thousands of people like me all frustrated that our plan limits have been slashed massively in the last few weeks.
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Have you tested:
github.com

GitHub - JuliusBrussee/caveman: 🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

🪨 why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman - JuliusBrussee/caveman
github.com github.com
 
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This was a very welcome surprise this morning. It seems like Claude pings me for updates every single day, and now there was one worth it!
 
zachz said:
I don't use Claude Code, but I use Claude Pro and for whatever reason it'll be mid-way through working out my prompt then unexpectedly stop. I'll get it to go again, it works fine, and then it immediately hits me with the notice saying my usage is used... half my experiences so far with Claude have been like this and it's frustrating. I'm not even a heavy user
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Every time I've tried using Claude Code on my app, it manages to mangle it up somehow. One time it rendered my app unlaunchable after it finished building in Xcode, but it reached the limit and I had to wait until way into the evening to "fix" or continue what it was doing. It literally was writing the code and stopped when my limit was hit. At least Codex will finish the work on the prompt it's running while telling you you've reached your limit.

I'd love to see what Claude Code can do, but I have yet to experience anything "coding-wise" it can do at all without hitting a limit. With Codex, I'm able to work for a few hours, then test on my device, then work again in Codex for a few hours.. I've hit my weekly limit a few times (also using the Pro equivalent) but then have only had to wait a day or so until it reset.

Again, ChatGPT's Codex help build an entire app/game that I'm very pleased with so far. Claude Code has only broken my app and stopped working, or didn't even try after "combobulating" for maybe 20+ minutes.. I feel like I wasted my money on my first month of Claude Pro, even after they reimbursed people for this very issue.
 
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Comparisons of returns vs cost for plans across Codex, Claude, & Gemini seem really hard to ascertain.

Anecdotal evidence (at best) seems to suggest Codex is more generous for a given $ spend. Claude seems very expensive. Output probably relatively close in terms of end results.

People (a small amount) seem to be willing to spend hundreds a month on it.Im not but my workplace probably is. I know Businesses who have rolled it out are concerned about how quickly their devs rack up costs as well.
Its expensive in the workplace for sure.
They can't absorb the huge cost and keep all their developers...

Jensen recently said a senior engineer should be spending $250K a year on AI assistance and he would worry if they weren't. Wow.

That equates to a company probably cutting out a huge chunk of engineers (50%?) to pay for that unless they absorb the cost and throughput is massively amplified.

The economics of AI is just getting started but something is already apparent.

Its an arms race.

Companies cannot ignore it. Ive used AI today massively at work to speed up development (estimated x4 productivity boost). Probably cost a pretty penny.
 
Claude is killing it, and Google just released Gemini app for macOS, while ChatGPT is becoming the new Siri.
 
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I’m super sorry I paid for a year for the Pro plan. I’m looking at ChatGPT. Granted, it had serious problems today according to Claude Status website.
 
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