Claude Desktop 2.0's Code Tab Puts Claude Code in a Friendly UI

Product manager Paweł Huryn finds Claude Desktop 2.0's Code tab is essentially Claude Code with a friendly GUI, letting non-engineers skip VS Code. His guide advises using Code (which fully loads project config) over Cowork, and warns against Fast mode to save quota.

2026-10-22 ~ 2026-10-22 · 4 related posts

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