Using Claude? Claude 2.0, the rebuilt Claude desktop app, changed 12 things. Some of them quietly burn your usage limit.

I run about forty Claude sessions every day, so I went through the new app on my own Mac.

This is what actually matters.

I also made a video of the whole walkthrough.

1. Cowork is gone: just Chat and Code

There are only two tabs now, Chat and Code. Every new feature ships in Code.

Don't let the word "code" scare you. You still type in plain English.

Switch to that tab, because everything below lives there.

Here is why it matters. When I open Claude now, I don't pick a mode first. I pick a folder.

Claude works inside it, with my files, my rules and my tools.

2. The session rail, and what eats your limit

The session rail is the panel on the right.

The top card shows where this chat runs: your computer or the cloud.

Below that is the context card. It shows what is eating your limit before you even type.

Memory files, skills, connectors.…