There’s claude.ai which takes a user to: Claude Chat (the usual conversational chat interface plus web-scope projects) Claude Code (this one is web-scoped folders, with GitHub option) There’s clau.de/web which take the user to: Claude Code (this one is web-scoped folders, with GitHub option) There’s the installed Claude Desktop, which has surfaces for: Claude Chat (the usual conversational chat interface plus web-scope projects) Claude Cowork (local or web-scope projects from Claude.ai) Claude Code (this one is local-scope folders, not web-scope folders) There’s the Claude Code extension, for IDE like VS Code Claude Code in IDE (this one is local-scope or web-scope ) Claude Code in CLI (this one is local-scope) There’s pure Claude Code CLI, no IDE There’s remote and dispatch. If you don’t have an idea of these surfaces, the everyday business or middle-of-the-road user will not realize the differences. submitted by /u/data-be-beautiful
Originally posted by u/data-be-beautiful on r/ClaudeCode