Claude AI Terminal: Chat Interface Replaces Commands
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I've been using Claude Code for a few months now and I keep thinking about why it feels so different from everything else. Everyone's trying to build "AI-powered" versions of existing apps. AI Photoshop. AI spreadsheets. AI whatever. More interfaces, more buttons, more layers between you and what you're actually trying to do. Boris went the opposite direction. He put Claude in the terminal. Most people think the terminal is this scary technical thing. And yeah, it used to be - you had to memorize commands, remember syntax, know exactly what to type. But I realized: the terminal is just text input and text output. It's basically a chat interface. It's been sitting there the whole time, connected to everything on your computer - your files, your system, your processes. Everything. The problem was never the terminal. The problem was that computers only spoke computer language. Now they speak English. You can ask Claude Code to find a file. Clean up your desktop. Check what's using memory. Write some code. Whatever. It understands what you mean, translates it to what the computer needs, and shows you what happened. No new app. No new operating system. Just your computer, but you can finally have a conversation with it. I keep seeing people try to build the "AI OS" and honestly, I think they're missing the point. We don't need a new operating system. The one we have is fine. We just needed it to understand us. That's what Boris figured out. The CLI was always the perfect interface for this. Direct access to everything. Just needed to speak human. Watch his videos if you haven't. The clarity of thinking is rare.