Comment by dinkleberg
14 hours ago
I can’t say I understand why one would want this lol. Watching cc session replays doesn’t seem particularly useful. But the execution seems well done, so nice job!
14 hours ago
I can’t say I understand why one would want this lol. Watching cc session replays doesn’t seem particularly useful. But the execution seems well done, so nice job!
I'm discovering new possibilities all the time with how Claude can work on a new type of task in our codebase and business more broadly. While a lot of this can be brought to the team by saying "encapsulate what you just did into a skill," sometimes it's as much about knowing what kinds of prompts to use to guide it as well.
Showing a colleague that flow, and the sequence of not just prompts but the types of Claude outputs to expect, all leading to Claude doing something that would have taken us a half day of work? As a linear video, rather than just a dump or screenshot of a final page? That could help to diffuse best practices rapidly.
OP - you might want to look at the kind of data model Loom used for this problem for videos in general, in terms of workspaces and permissions. Could make a startup out of this!
(Also as a smaller note - you might want to skip over long runs and generations by default, rather than forcing someone into 5x mode! A user of this would want to see messages, to and from Claude, at a standardized rate - not necessarily a sped up version of clock time.)
That’s a really interesting way to frame it — showing the flow of prompts and responses rather than just the final result.
I’ve mostly been using it for demos and sharing sessions with teammates, but the training / best-practices angle is a great point.
On navigation: you can already step through turns with the arrow keys or jump around the timeline, so you don’t have to sit through long generations. But I agree that smarter defaults (skipping or collapsing long runs) could make it smoother.
And the Loom comparison is interesting — I hadn’t thought about the workspace/permission side yet since this started as a small CLI tool for sharing sessions, but that’s a good direction to think about.
> Showing a colleague that flow, and the sequence of not just prompts but the types of Claude outputs to expect, all leading to Claude doing something that would have taken us a half day of work? As a linear video, rather than just a dump or screenshot of a final page? That could help to diffuse best practices rapidly.
Would this not be visible in a text dump without taking half a day to watch? What's/who's the benefit/benificiary of the realtime experience here?
Granted, I have friends who don't read but prefer visual stimulation. I don't think the overlap with people comfortable with code is very large at all.
I thought the same about watching people play video games but that's clearly a thing! This might be useful for educating people on how to use these new tools, perhaps those not in engineering but product, UX, less familiar with CLIs.
Thank you, and fair question :) I’ve been experimenting with using Claude Code with hardware, where the interesting part is the tool usage and workflow, not just the final output. Screenshots and recordings made it hard to show, so the replay lets you step through the session and inspect what actually happened.
I think the main use case is training. I feel more and more confident with my prompts ( and what tasks I can safely pass to what models ), but it is sometimes hard to explain to anyone else what made me go a particular route. This may help, because a person can follow your intuition.