Claude Code: Your terminal gets smart

The black screen that talks to you

If you have ever watched an experienced programmer at work, you know the "terminal": a black screen, austere, filled with lines of text. It is the essence of pure computing. Where a competitor like Antigravity will bet on thousands of windows, Claude Code offers professionals the chance to run Artificial Intelligence by integrating it directly into the heart of the console!

The visual alternative: the Claude app for PC

Not everyone is a hacker hiding in the dark. If the terminal frightens you, Anthropic has also spun out its system via an application called Claude for PC (on Windows and macOS). This application offers a far more modern and intuitive interface: you simply drag and drop your working folders into the window. Claude will then read the entire project without you having to display or handle a single line of code yourself.

How do you use it (Terminal side)?

For the developer who stays in the console, it is extremely simple. They open their project, and instead of typing archaic, complicated commands, they simply type: claude "Fix the bug on the login page, run the tests, and save the project".

From there, the Claude Code module takes over, autonomously:

1. Exploration: The AI navigates through your folders, reads the source code and understands how the application was built.
2. Action and Execution: It deletes the bad code, writes the right code, and can run real commands on your machine (such as launching a local test script).
3. "Plan Mode": For complex tasks, Claude does not charge in head first. It first generates a detailed plan of action and waits for your go-ahead.

Why do professionals love it?

In 2026, if Claude appeals so much to large companies, it is thanks to its integrations:

• The MCP protocol (Model Context Protocol): This system lets Claude easily connect to your external work tools. You can ask it to fetch a bug report from Jira or extract secure data.
• Automation (CI/CD): Servers can be instructed to use it at night as a background task to fix urgent errors, with no human help.
• Permission security: Claude cannot run destructive code (formatting, deleting databases) without explicitly asking your permission.

And if I am not a developer, what is the point?

Whether on the command line or in the desktop application, Claude can turn into a magical productivity assistant for the ordinary user:

• "Rename these 500 holiday photos, adding the geographic date found in their metadata."
• "Read this 10,000-line Excel document, extract all the 2025 income, and draw up a financial profile for me."
• "Find all the Word folders on my computer that talk about real estate and gather them into a single PDF folder."

Without you needing any computing knowledge whatsoever, Claude will organise the whole machine for you in record time.

How much does it cost? (Pricing)

Here are the various plans Anthropic offers for accessing their cutting-edge applications and models: