The number of ways to get an AI to write your code right now is … great? Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, and all the others. I think that’s a good thing. The easier we make it to hand real work to a capable coding agent, the better off we all are in the long run. I want to try most of them because that’s half the fun, figuring things out.

My cool tool for the week is Supacode.

What Supacode Is

Supacode is a native macOS app, written in Swift and built on libghostty, with no Electron and no web wrapper anywhere in sight. It’s fast the way native software is fast, the kind of speed you feel in every keystroke.

The website calls it a “command center for coding agents,” and well ok I get it now. Supacode is the nicest way I’ve found to run Claude Code. It’s open source too, so you can poke at the internals on GitHub if you’re curious.

What It Does for Me

This is the part that I like.

Supacode keeps all my projects organized down the left side, so jumping between them is one click instead of a mental map of which terminal tab is which. When I start a Claude Code session, its chat window moves up into the active area, and I can see every live session I have going at a glance.

The big one: it hooks into Claude Code, so Claude tells Supacode when it’s finished a task or when it needs something from me. Instead of babysitting a terminal waiting for the next prompt, I just get told when Claude is waiting on me. I tried for a long time to get something like that working in a plain terminal and never really nailed it. Here it just works.

And when I need more than one CLI open on the same project, I can group those tabs together instead of squinting at a wall of identical-looking shells.

None of that is glamorous. It’s just the difference between running Claude Code and pleasantly running Claude Code.

I Still Love Ghostty

I’m not leaving Ghostty behind, to be clear. I love Ghostty. Mitchell Hashimoto and everyone who’s worked on it has built something special. When I need a clean shell to compile a binary or grep through some logs, Ghostty is where I want to live.

Supacode is built on libghostty, the same engine that powers Ghostty. So the speed and feel I love about Ghostty is sitting right underneath Supacode too. They’re cousins. I get Ghostty for raw terminal work and Supacode for running Claude Code, and both of them are quietly standing on the same excellent foundation.

So Here We Are

We’re spoiled for choice with AI coding tools right now, and I love that. Most of what I try is interesting, and then I move on. Every so often something just slots into how I already work and earns a permanent spot. For me, right now, that’s Supacode. If you’re running Claude Code all day on a Mac, it’s well worth a look.

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