Short answer: Jordan Metzner says the interface does not really matter, but he prefers the terminal because he can run many sessions at once. Sam Nadler says running several terminals is like managing a team of little Claudes.
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From Episode 29: We Built an AI Recruiter Coach in 6 Hours (Plus Claude Cowork in Real Time), starting at 13:31.
Jordan Metzner [13:30]: No. I mean, I've used Cowork. I think it's a great tool. I love that you can just dump a bunch of documents in. Honestly, I don't really care what interface you use. It's gotten better and better. I even see these, like, recommendations. There's, a new feature that didn't have it like a few days ago. But honestly, doesn't really matter. I think like you can I think what does matter is using like the best tools at the time, and it seems that like these Anthropic tools are the best? And like if your preferred interface is the web or your preferred interface is the terminal or it is this app, doesn't really matter. But at the end of the day, it gets you building. And I mean, they're pretty efficient building tools. I think the reason I like the terminal a little bit better is because, like, can you duplicate this? Can you have another window open at the same time? Can you do like more things than once? Whereas like Claude Code, you can literally have as many of these as you wanted running simultaneously. So I think like, it just have a little different form of freedom, but it doesn't really matter. Like, if you as long as it's like a gateway drug to getting like more stuff built, and I mean, look how efficient it is. I think I told you I have a skill, and I can share it with you, but you can use my skill, and you can get all the design features, and like layouts that like I like to use in my projects, and you can copy them.
Jordan Metzner [14:41]: And then, I think like we're going to like, we're gonna have kinda like enterprise skills that we can use like across the board where everybody's sharing these same skills and gets to, have products that work hand in hand together because they don't have any questions about like, what they need to do.
Sam Nadler [14:56]: Yeah. Totally. So, I mean, you make a great point. I don't think you can open multiple windows at the same time. Maybe you can, but that is the great thing about operating Claude Code out of the terminal. You can literally have, five, four, five terminals open working on different projects. It is, some time in between. So you're just kinda switching between each terminal window, providing context, testing, going to the next one, providing a bit more, context, testing, actions, boom. It's literally just kinda managing a team of little Claudes out there, and, like, the pace when you're doing it like that is way faster than kinda waiting for this to go through the progress and the plan.
Jordan Metzner [15:36]: Yeah. Totally. But honestly, it doesn't really matter. It's all progressing so quickly and, like, what's today's interface may not be tomorrow's interface. I'm just like, you gotta be willing to kind of really willing to change the way you work and, like, workflows consistently to, like, keep up with the tool set, you know. I mean, this type of like chatting versus with agents didn't exist. Right? And so, yeah, it's just a new fun new way to build. Okay. Let's just finish up the last news story real quick. I mean, considering what we're talking about all day, you know.
