Ian Nuttall

Part entrepreneur, part marketer, part software engineer using AI to build stuff on the internet.

Run long tasks in the background with Claude Code

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Claude Code pro tip:

add this line to your .zshrc or .bashrc (ask CC to do it for you) and you can move long running tasks to the background to keep chatting

export ENABLE_BACKGROUND_TASKS=1

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Found this via @ryoppippi but props to @SIGKITTEN who was first to discover it

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