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Claude Code installation is straightforward as long as you follow a few simple steps.
Projects are scoped by directory, so setup location matters.
Proper setup unlocks fast, stable, agentic development workflows.
Claude Code has been making waves in the development world. I recently used Anthropic's coding assistant to build a complex and fairly sophisticated iPhone app from start to finish.
I started by using Claude Code inside Apple's Code Intelligence feature of Xcode, but found Code Intelligence to be buggy. It crashed or hung fairly consistently. I confirmed that it was Code Intelligence, not Claude Code, causing the issues, because when I tried using OpenAI's Codex in Code Intelligence, I encountered the same buggy behavior.
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