Claude Code’s New Features Might Replace Your Current IDE

I don't know if you've seen the news, but Claude have been cooking recently, releasing banger after banger, and I personally are struggling to keep up. So, what we're going to do together as a family is go through some of these changes and start to digest them. So, anti-gravity was the first to kind of introduce this idea that their extension, their Chrome extension is able to be controlled from the IDE. Now, CL Claude have just released that feature. So whilst we had the Chrome, MCP, Playright, various ways to control the browser in cursor, they've got their own in inhouse um IDE, this is quite cool that it can read consoles, do all the stuff you would expect from with inside clawed code, probably clawed to be honest as well. Um but I'd be using it inside of clawed code. So this is this is really nice and it's really and we'll get into testing in replet later on but I'm really trying to like solidify my my testing workflow and if I can work out some agents some rules to always go to the browser after after writing a feature this that the other this will help massively with that. Um and I won't need to just keep switching between you know cursor or whatever. I can just sort of stay inside claw code. So this is available for all Mac plan users. um if you're running the latest version. So that that got released literally today. Yeah, we've also got look at these little uh things they're releasing as well. Uh syntax highlighting for diffs, prompt suggestions, first party marketplace pl uh uh plugins for the marketplace and sharable guest passes. So if you want to if you want a free week of claw code, put it in the comments and I can uh or we'll sort out something. But I've got I've got three passes that I can give away for a week, I think that is. So, uh, I can do that for you. So, diffs is obviously just more of a quality of life thing. This is going to really help see the differences in in what's actually changing again rather than going into, you know, cursor or or whatever. Suggested next prompt. I actually see saw this uh happening inside core code. I didn't realize what was going on. It's suggesting the next prompt and you can accept it with tab, which removed thinking mode in core code. They fixed it with option T. you have you go into thinking mode with option t um or alt t if you're on PC. Plugins are a weird one because you used to have to add a plugin by having the link to the GitHub library whereas now they've got literally you can see them scrolling through the marketplace right now just easier to easier to connect plugins. Now I'm going to have a video coming out on plugins. I think people are sleeping on plugins and yeah I'll have a video coming out of that. So pretty um pretty excited for that. And then one last one, guys. Claw code on Android. Pretty cool. I actually didn't realize this, but you if you've got the claw app, you can literally code from your phone now with on claw code. And I could we were talking about agents and stuff like that. You can you can use claw code for web and set off agents [snorts] on um using claw code, you know, um online agents and whatever or claw code for the web. Hotkey model switcher. I'm here for that because I've got slash commands that switch the model and I've actually this thing that we were speaking about earlier. I've got this to select different models. Now with the hotkey now with the hotkey I don't need to channel channel all that sort of stuff. Uh I could you don't need to use claw code for the web. You can use um Claude's desktop um and then you select your target as you either use it locally for on the claw code desktop or you select it for for the um GitHub, you know, so it's all done all done locally. It's not it's not done on the web, but regardless and then context window status lines. I mean, that's just a UI update. These features create an ecosystem where it's making it harder and harder and harder for me to leave clawed code because no other CLI Gemini um codecs none of them have all of these really nice quality of life features which is like well if I move over to codeex then then I need to create new do they even have sub agents I don't even know or memory files or slash commands or this or that do you know what I mean so it's uh you know but anyway yeah I'm I'm definitely getting deeper and deeper into Claude Code's um love affair. This is part of a larger conversation on my show, Command AI, which we stream live every single week. We discuss the news and all things related to AI in the world of design and web. Catch us next week and join in the banter.