Remy Gaskell explains why he prefers running Claude Code inside Visual Studio Code rather than switching between a terminal and a desktop chat interface. He demonstrates session history, context information, model controls and multiple sessions beside a visible project folder. His observations about speed and reliability describe his own experience, not a controlled comparison of the applications.
Remy Gaskell organizes writing, marketing and other knowledge work in project folders, opens files alongside the agent and edits Markdown in a document-style view. He also shows Codex working in the same editor and previews images and office documents. The workspace depends on extensions: he distinguishes the default editor from his customized setup and identifies the Claude Code extension, theme, file icons, agent-session visualization and document editors.
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