2025

The year of the TUI. Claude Code made agents visible in the terminal.

2026

The GUI phase. Codex and Claude desktop apps bring agents into visual workspaces.

Claude.ai + Chrome

Chat in your browser, with page vision

Quick questions, live page reading, browser-based research

Claude Cowork

AI collaborator in the desktop app

Design systems, decks, documents, visual artifacts

Claude Code

Agentic coding in your terminal

Building automations, scripts, agents, scheduled briefs

OpenClaw

Claude over WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal

Automation and tasks without opening a new app