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Claude Code on the web

578 points by adocomplete 11mo ago

_pvzn 11mo ago
This is kind of nice, as much as I love a good TUI, sometimes text editing in claude code can trip me up compared to a web GUI
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minimaxir 11mo ago
I like how in the demo video there's a squiggle emphasis on Claude's "Good Idea!" in response to a user clarification, when it's more common among vibe coders that that less glazing is better and they just want the LLM to write code.
Redster 11mo ago
Here's the link talking about the sandbox environment and features they're using for this Claude Code. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-sandboxing https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-sandboxing
- hmokiguess 11mo ago
  Soon —> https://xkcd.com/2044/ https://xkcd.com/2044/
jryio 11mo ago
Pair programming is still one of the best ways to knowledge transfer between two programmers in a high throughput manner. Humans learn by doing, building synaptic connections. I wonder if a shared Claude Code instance has the same effect?
- dingnuts 11mo ago
  The person driving is the one that learns the most in pair programming. In the scenario you've described, that would be Claude. LLMs don't learn. Doesn't CC sometimes take twenty, thirty minutes to return an attempt? I wouldn't know, because I'm not rich and my employer has decided CC is too expensive, but I wonder what you would do with your pair programming partner while you wait. The bosses would like to think we'd start working on something else, maybe start up a different Claude instance, but can you really change contexts and back before the first one is done? You AND your partner? Nah, just go play air hockey until your boss realizes Claude is what they need, not you.
  - mr_mitm 11mo ago
    Just for the record, CC is about the cost of a Netflix subscription, and it responds faster than any human can.
  - astrange 11mo ago
    You can get plenty of CC on a $20/month plan.
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  - myko 11mo ago
    > Nah, just go play air hockey until your boss realizes Claude is what they need, not you. This is a depressing comment. I am apprehensive about the future of software development in this milieu. I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it. Certainly part of the fun of building something was missing during that project, but it was still fun to see something new come to life. Maybe I should say I am cautiously optimistic but also concerned: I don't feel confident in the best ways to use these tools to build good software, and I'm not sure exactly what skills are useful in order to get them there.
    - losteric 11mo ago
      > I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it. Can I ask what you built?
      - myko 11mo ago
        https://github.com/Chuntttttt/TapeDeck https://github.com/Chuntttttt/TapeDeck There was a post recently where someone linked to: https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-library-for-my-kids/ https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-li... and I thought the project was amazing, but I didn't like how the IDs were managed in yml, so I built this to make it more dynamic. I plan to add support for other smart home automations with it as well as more streaming services. One of the features I really like about it is it makes it easy to print and cut out stickers to slap on the NFC cards for playing media. My toddler loves it so far and one of his friend's has asked me to make one for him as well
- dgunay 11mo ago
  I haven't seen anyone talking about using agents in this way. I wonder if it would be helpful for learning e.g. a new language or codebase to have the human write the code while the agent takes the role of the "backseat driver" in the pair programming dynamic.
charlesabarnes 11mo ago
It's pretty frustrating that every release is IOS first without any timeline or expectation for Android
- outime 11mo ago
  This may explain it: https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/iphone-users-spend-apps/ https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/iphone-users-spend-apps/
  - poly2it 11mo ago
    It is also relevant to know if a user who'd otherwise use app X on iOS would use X less on Android.
  - rldjbpin 11mo ago
    this makes sense for apps where you pay up front to use it. for subscription-based services, this idea falls flat. in fact, apple made it harder for apps to take payments from its users in the past than others.
- pjmlp 11mo ago
  It is basically a US centric view of mobile OS market share.
  - aaronbrethorst 11mo ago
    Anthropic is a US-based company.
    - OJFord 11mo ago
      With a global market and extant user base.
    - pjmlp 11mo ago
      Some companies would rather have a more international user base. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide So maybe they rather please the home market, I guess.
brynary 11mo ago
The most interesting parts of this to me are somewhat buried: - Claude Code has been added to iOS - Claude Code on the Web allows for seamless switching to Claude Code CLI - They have open sourced an OS-native sandboxing system which limits file system and network access _without_ needing containers However, I find the emphasis on limiting the outbound network access somewhat puzzling because the allowlists invariably include domains like gist.github.com and dozens of others which act effectively as public CMS’es and would still permit exfiltration with just a bit of extra effort.
- minimaxir 11mo ago
  Link to the GitHub for the native sandboxing: https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime
  - navanchauhan 11mo ago
    I used `sandbox-exec` previously before moving to a better solution (done right, sandboxing on macOS can be more powerful than Linux imo). The way `sandbox-exec` works is that all child processes inherit the same restrictions. For example, if you run `sandbox-exec $rules claude --dangerously-skip-permissions`, any commands executed by Claude through a shell will also be bound by those same rules. Since the sandbox settings are applied globally, you currently can’t grant or deny granular read/write permissions to specific tools. Using a proxy through the `HTTP_PROXY` or `HTTPS_PROXY` environment variables has its own issues. It relies on the application respecting those variables—if it doesn’t, the connection will simply fail. Sure, in this case since all other network connection requests are dropped you are somewhat protected but then an application that doesn't respect them will just not work You can also have some fun with `DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES`, but that often requires creating shims to make it work with codesigned binaries
    - joshdev 11mo ago
      What is the better solution you’ve moved on to?
jannniii 11mo ago
I’m wondering if it would be possible to use the new skills feature or agents with this. Without the agents or the skills, I don’t know how useful this would be.
- simonw 11mo ago
  It's running Claude Code CLI on a container for you, so skills should just work. I've not tried them myself yet though.
ea016 11mo ago
No relations to them, but I've started using Happy[0]'s iOS app to start and continue Claude Code sessions on my iPhone. It allows me to run sessions on a custom environment, like a machine with a GPU to train models [0] https://github.com/slopus/happy/ https://github.com/slopus/happy/
- hmokiguess 11mo ago
  This seems to be the only solution still if using bedrock or direct API access instead of Pro / Max plan, the Claude Code for Web doesn't seem to let you use it that way.
  - didgeoridoo 11mo ago
    You can log in to your CC instance however you like, including via Pro/Max. Happy just wraps it and provides remote access with a much better UI than using a phone-based terminal app.
    - hmokiguess 11mo ago
      Yes, that's precisely what I meant! I was talking with regards to the parent article about Claude Code on the Web via Anthropic.
- TechDebtDevin 11mo ago
  Are you people just lighting money on fire? What could you possibly get done via a phone that is meaningful.
mkummer 11mo ago
Is the web interface open sourced anywhere? Looks great, excited to try it out
ubj 11mo ago
Very curious to see what usage limits are like for paid plans. Anthropic was already experiencing issues with high-volume model usage for Pro and Max users. I hope their infrastructure is able to adequately support running these additional coding environments on top of model inference. Just to be clear, I'm excited for the capability to use Claude Code entirely within the browser. However, I've heard reports of Max users experiencing throttled usage limits in recent months, and am concerned as to whether this will exacerbate that issue or not.
- CharlesW 11mo ago
  Anecdotally, as a Max user typically using Claude Code for >8 hours/day, I've never experienced that. That said, I'm not one of those people using Opus for everything, and in fact I've been happy using Sonnet 4.5 even for planning.
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- minimaxir 11mo ago
  I suspect the release of Claude Haiku 4.5 was done to help reduce usage costs for Anthropic and any use of Claude Code will differ to it if capacity is limited. EDIT: I had meant defer which is the first time I've made a /r/boneappletea in awhile
  - chrisweekly 11mo ago
    "differ"? did you mean "default"?
    - scubbo 11mo ago
      I imagine "defer"
cube2222 11mo ago
This is quite nice! I'm using Claude Code locally a lot, occasionally with a couple parallel session. I was very happy when they made the GitHub Action - I used it quite a bit, but in practice I got frustrated that I effectively only get a single back-and-forth out of it, I can't really "continue the conversation without losing context" - Sure, I can respond to it in the PR it makes, but that will be a fresh session with a fresh empty context. So, as much as I don't like moving out of my standard development workflow with my tools, I think this could be quite useful. The ability to interrupt and/or continue a conversation should be very nice. My main worry is - usually my unit tests and integration tests rely on a postgres database running on the machine, and it's not obvious to me if I can spin that up here?
- anon3459 11mo ago
  Use pglite
- radial_symmetry 11mo ago
  Check out Crystal if you want a good tool for managing parallel sessions locally https://github.com/stravu/crystal https://github.com/stravu/crystal
- GreekPete 11mo ago
  https://docs.github.com/en/actions/tutorials/use-containerized-services/use-docker-service-containers https://docs.github.com/en/actions/tutorials/use-containeriz...
  - cube2222 11mo ago
    I'm not sure how this applies? We're talking about the "Claude Code on the Web" custom sandbox, not running Claude Code in GitHub Actions.
- kofman 11mo ago
  You can ask Claude to install Postgres and it should just work. We'll have it. In the default image shortly.
fny 11mo ago
I've been using Happy Coder[0] for some time now on web and mobile. I run it `--yolo` mode on an isolated VM across multiple projects. With Happy, I managed to turn one of these Claude Code instances into a replacement for Claude that has all the MCP goodness I could ever want and more. [0]: https://happy.engineering/ https://happy.engineering/
- ShipEveryWeek 11mo ago
  This looks nice! I’ve been using terminus + tailscale to get similar results, but I’ll give this a go
lvl155 11mo ago
I am not a big fan of these. They’re trying to bundle compute and jack up the prices down the road.
- jimmydoe 11mo ago
  not sure why you got downvoted but adding all these bells and whistles are the way to increase the price, which in turn justify the huge investment. without 200% price increase in 3 years, there's no way any of these AI companies will survive.
simonw 11mo ago
I had a preview of this over the weekend, notes here plus some example PRs: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/ It's really solid. It's effectively a web (and native mobile) UI over Claude Code CLI, more specifically "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions". Anthropic have recognized that Claude Code where you don't have to approve every step is massively more productive and interesting than the default, so it's worth investing a lot of resources in sandboxing.
- extr 11mo ago
  It’s interesting because I’ve slowly arrived at the opposite conclusion: for much of my practical day to day work, using CC with “allow edits” turned OFF results in a much better end product. I can correct it inline, I pseudo-review the code as it’s produced, etc etc. Codex is better for “fire and forget” features for sure. But Claude remains excellent at grokking intent for problems where you aren’t quite sure what you want to build yet or are highly opinionated. Mostly due to the fact it’s faster and the iteration loop is faster.
  - simonw 11mo ago
    That approach should work well for projects where you are directly working on the code in tandem with Claude, but a lot of my own uses are much more research oriented. I like sending Claude Code off on a mission figure out how to do something. Here's an example from this morning, getting CUDA working on a NVIDIA Spark: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-code/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-co... I have a few more in https://github.com/simonw/research https://github.com/simonw/research
    - extr 11mo ago
      Very fair. Interesting how much feedback on models/tools is different right now depending on what you're doing.
    - fragmede 11mo ago
      so hey by the way, have you discovered Wispr Flow or something similar so you can talk to your computer like Scotty does?
jngiam1 11mo ago
I got so used to having Claude Code read some of my MCP tools, and was bummed to see that it couldn't connect to them yet on the web. Pretty cool though! Will need to use it for some more isolated work/code edits. Claude Code is now my workhorse for a ton of stuff including non-coding work (esp. with the right MCPs)
Stevvo 11mo ago
Guess they couldn't name it "Claude Codex"
mmaunder 11mo ago
We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI. I'm doing massive lifts with it on software that would never before have been feasible for me personally, or any team I've ever run. I'll use Claude Code maybe once every two weeks as a second set of eyes to inspect code and document a bug, with mixed success. But my experience has been that initially Claude Code was amazing and a "just take my frikkin money" product. Then Codex overtook CC and is much better at longer runs on hard problems. I've seen Claude Code literally just give up on a hard problem and tell me to buy something off the shelf. Whereas Codex's ability to profoundly increase the capabilities of a software org is a secret that's slowly getting out. I don't have any relationship with any AI company, and honestly I was rooting for Anthropic, but Codex CLI is just way way better. Also Codex CLI is cheaper than Claude Code. I think Anthropic are going to have to somehow leapfrog OpenAI to regain the position they were in around June of this year. But right now they're being handed their hat.
- maherbeg 11mo ago
  Yeah this has been my experience as well. The Claude Code UI is still so much better, and the permissioning policy system is much better. Though I'm working on closing that gap by writing a custom policy https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/execpolicy/README.md https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/execpolic... Kinda sick of Codex asking for approval to run tests for each test instance
  - rtfeldman 11mo ago
    You don't have to use Codex in its terminal UI - e.g. you can use it in the Zed IDE out-the-box: https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed
    - PantaloonFlames 11mo ago
      And also in emacs or neovim https://xenodium.com/introducing-acpel https://xenodium.com/introducing-acpel
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mrcwinn 11mo ago
We’re moving almost entirely to Codex, first because often it’s just better, and second because it’s much cheaper. It’s a bet that they’re better now, but given capacity and funding, they’ll be better later too. The only edge Claude has is context window, which we do sometimes hit, but I’m sure that gap will close.
- esafak 11mo ago
  You're using the metered API rather than a subscription, right?
- asdev 11mo ago
  are you using the web ui, cli or both?
shireboy 11mo ago
I really want this but for Azure Devops. If you're not familiar, Microsoft owns both Github and Azure Devops, and both do similar: git repos and project management. I can use Github Copilot, Claude Code CLI, etc. against code on my disk, including Azure Devops MCP. But what I can't easily do is like Github Copilot Agent and apparently this Claude Code on Web: Assign a ticket to @SomeAi and have a PR show up in a few minutes. Can't change to github for _reasons_. Would love any suggestions if anyone in a similar story.
- jimmydoe 11mo ago
  ask your boss to read between the lines of this blog post: https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/azure-devops-with-github-repositories-your-path-to-agentic-ai https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/azure-devops-with-githu... (if they want employee to use more AI, ditch ADO, embrace GitHub)
neilv 11mo ago
Nit about doing your AI interfaces on the Web: I really want claude.ai and chatgpt.com to offer a standard username+password login without 2FA. The kind my privacy-friendly browser of short-lived sessions can complete in a couple clicks, like for most other SaaSes, and then I'm in and using the tool. I don't want to leak data either way by using some "let's throw SSO from a sketchy adtech company into the trust loop". I don't want to wait a minute for Anthropic's login-by-email link, and have the process slam the brakes on my workflow and train of thought. I don't want to wait a minute for OpenAI's MFA-by-email code (even though I disabled that in the account settings, it still did it). I don't want to deal with desktop clients I don't trust, or that might not keep up with feature improvements. Nor have to kludge up a clumsy virtualization sandbox for an untrusted client, just to ask an LLM questions that could just be in a Web browser.
- linkregister 11mo ago
  In the modern age of mass credential stuffing attacks exploiting password reuse, MFA is one of the most effective tools for reducing unauthorized logins. Companies that don't adopt it are risking unacceptably high levels of credit card chargebacks. I wish the standard were for companies to check new passwords against leaked password lists, e.g. what https://haveibeenpwned.com https://haveibeenpwned.com uses. I use a similar workflow and have found that websites that allow passkey-based login can avoid the friction of waiting for TOTP codes or magic links.
- amluto 11mo ago
  How about using supporting WebAuthn? The current claude.ai signin mechanism is rather annoying.
aantix 11mo ago
Does this web interface have support for AWS Bedrock?
cesarvarela 11mo ago
Does this work inside docker containers like Codex? Stuff like `testcontainers` is unusable with that architecture because you need access to docker itself.
- lysecret 11mo ago
  Yea it failed on testcontainers for me. The pnpm install worked fine though.
lysecret 11mo ago
Just played around with it the fact it’s on the phone is a big bonus. I have setup a little workflow where given linear tags it sets up a work tree on my dev box installs deps and starts the implementation so I can take it over I prefer this workflow to the fully managed cloud based solutions. This kind of fits in for issues where I’m basically sure I won’t have to take it over (and it can do it fully on its own). Which aren’t that many. Very simple example there was a warning pop up on something where I thought there shouldn’t be now it’s done fully automatically from my phone in 5 mins. I quite like that these small changes become so easy.
bgirard 11mo ago
Looks promising. I got my environment working well with Codex's Cloud Task. Trying to same repo with Claude Code Web (which started off with Claude Code CLI mind you), and the yarn install just hangs with no debuggable output.
arjie 11mo ago
A thing I really like with Claude Code is how well it uses the bash scripts you give it. I also have a browser control MCP installed and it's pretty good for it to full-cycle around the approach. I have a staging database that it has the passwords to that it logs in and runs queries on. This whole thing means it loops and delivers good results for me. I'll try this, but the grounding seems crucial for these LLMs to deliver results that are fewer shot than otherwise.
- hugs 11mo ago
  which specific functions/features of the browser control MCP do you lean on the most?
  - arjie 11mo ago
    I don't use it myself so to speak, except to fill in some things sometimes like passwords. The LLM is the user. It just uses the primitives it has (these are my paraphrases): scroll_to, expand_viewport, screenshot, select_dom_element, fill_input. This way I can tell it to implement a feature and verify it and it does so in a Google Chrome testing profile. Without the grounding, I've noticed that LLMs often produce "code that should work" but then something else is missing. This way, by the time I see it, the feature works. I then have to go in and advise it on factoring and things like that, but the functionality itself is present and working.
mdeeks 11mo ago
I feel like these background agents still aren't doing what I want from a developer experience perspective. Running in an inaccessible environment that pushes random things to branches that I then have to checkout locally doesn't feel great. AI coding should be tightly in the inner dev loop! PRs are a bad way to review and iterate on code. They are a last line of defense, not the primary way to develop. Give me an isolated environment that is one click hooked up to Cursor/VSCode Remote SSH. It should be the default. I can't think of a single time that Claude or any other AI tool nailed the request on the first try (other than trivial things). I always need to touch it up or at least navigate around and validate it in my IDE.
- asdev 11mo ago
  so the biggest issue is having to pull down and manually edit changes? can't you just @claude on the PR to make any changes?
  - mdeeks 11mo ago
    Yes, but my point is often times I don't want to. Sometimes there are changes I can make it seconds. I don't want to wait 15+ seconds for an AI that might do it wrong or do too much. Also it isn't always about editing. It is about seeing the surrounding code, navigating around, and ensuring the AI did the right thing in all of the right places.
- justinram11 11mo ago
  Have you checked out Ona [1] (gitpod's pivot)? [1] https://ona.com/ https://ona.com/
  - mdeeks 11mo ago
    This is possibly what I want? It's hard to tell from all of the marketing on the site. I want to run a prompt that operates in an isolated environment that is open in my IDE where I can iterate with the AI. I think maybe it can do this?
bgwalter 11mo ago
I have never seen such a bunch of uncreative people who have never written a real application, never done anything artistic, never said anything intelligent try to ruin software development to the extent that the "AI" companies do. They want to turn everything into a bootstrap framework, which is probably the limit of their mental horizon. And many people maintain that the emperor is fully clothed and that the scam works.
- cheema33 11mo ago
  Your comment has a bit of the "old man screams at clouds" feel to it.
  - bgwalter 11mo ago
    You're absolutely right and thank you for your correction! Clouds are a legitimate IT business, and it would be a factual error to dismiss them. I apologize for the error. Would you like me to print a chart of the growth of cloud businesses from 2010-2025?
low_tech_punk 11mo ago
IMHO, parallel tasks across multiple repos is not as useful as parallel tasks in one repo.
jackconsidine 11mo ago
> We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI Seeing comments like this all over the place. I switched to CC from Cursor in June / July because I saw the same types of comments. I switched from VSCode + Copilot about 8 months before that for the same reason. I remember being skeptical that this sort of thing was guerilla marketing, but CC was in fact better than Cursor. Guess I'll try Codex, and I guess that it's good that there are multiple competing products making big strides. Never would have imagined myself ditching IDEs and workflows 3x in a few months. A little exhausting
- rorads 11mo ago
  I think it’s a lot less exhausting now that the IDE part is mostly decoupled. I can’t imagine cursor continuing to compete when really all they’re doing is selling tokens either a markup, and hence crushing your context on every call. Sorry if that sounds negative but it’s true. I use CC and codex somewhat interchangeably, but I have to agree with the comments. Codex is a compete monster, and there really isn’t any competition right now.
- grrowl 11mo ago
  OpenAI seems to limit how "hard" your gpt-5-codex can think depending on your subscription plan; whereas Anthropic/Claude only limits how much use you get. I evaluate Codex every month or so with a problem suited to it, but rarely gets merged over a version produced by Charlie (which yes is $500/mo, but rarely causes problems) or something Claude did in a managed or unmanaged session. ymmv
dysoco 11mo ago
So from what I can understand this is only meant to be used with Claude-hosted sandbox environments? Wouldn't work for my case since I need a lot of HDD space, GPUs etc. to run the thing I'm working on, but it would be great if I could run a Claude Code server in my server, expose the port and then connect via web or iOS interface. Sure I can use tmux/ssh but it's very impractical specially in mobile.
yoavm 11mo ago
I was just working on something similar for OpenCode - pushing it now in case it's useful for someone[0]. It can run in a front-end only mode (I'll put up a hosted version soon), and then you need to specify your OpenCode API server and it'll connect to it. Alternatively, it can spin up the API server itself and proxy it, and then you just need to expose (securely) the server to the internet. The UI is responsive and my main idea was that I can easily continue directing the AI from my phone, but it's also of course possible to just spin up new sessions. So often I have an idea while I'm away from my keyboard, and being up able to just say "create an X" and let it do its thing while I'm on the go is quite exciting. It doesn't spin up a special sandbox environment or anything like that, but you're really free to run it inside whatever sandboxing solution you want. And unlike Claude Code, you're of course free to choose whatever model you want. [0] https://github.com/bjesus/opencode-web https://github.com/bjesus/opencode-web
hnidiots3 11mo ago
I wonder why people don’t just use Amp Code and use the Oracle. It’s Sonnet 4.5 + GPT-5 working together. Codex just isn’t as good as people make it out to be. OpenAI seems to train on a lot of JavaScript/Tailwind to make visuals look more impressive but when it comes to actual backend work it just fails more than it succeeds. Sonnet is much better at chewing through tasks and GPT 5 is great at consulting planning and analysis. Using Amp and asking it to check everything with the oracle leads to superior results. But no one on HN has heard of it. I’m guessing HN hates twitter?
- VerminOctopus1 11mo ago
  Not sure what your twitter comment is about, I use it and I’ve just never heard of this product. Looks cool, I will give it a test.
  - hnidiots3 11mo ago
    Might be who you follow but it seems everyone is talking about it more and more but I never see it mentioned on HN at all. So I figure the AI enthusiasts here aren’t on Twitter. (Just an assumption) Worth trying out. The free version doesn’t have the oracle so I use the paid version.
- Phlogistique 11mo ago
  Because Claude is 20 bucks a month, Codex is 20 bucks a month, and any pay by token plan is way more expensive.
nextworddev 11mo ago
Developers may want to deny this, but it's getting dangerously close to maybe replacing 30% of developers
- simonw 11mo ago
  I continue to believe that making developers 2-3x times more productive makes those developers 2-3x more valuable, and the smart thing for companies to do is to take on 2-3x times the amount of work, or hire MORE developers and finally start crunching through their inevitably years-long backlogs.
  - nextworddev 11mo ago
    Your view doesn’t mesh with conversations I have had with most C-suite. Most firms outside of SV are seeing opportunities for cost reduction mostly. And you can think through with first principles to see why it won’t expand developer hiring. Since AI progress is jagged, some industries will be affected in outsized ways while others may thrive more. But the increase in demand from new industries won’t absorb the reduction in demand from disrupted industries.
ed_mercer 11mo ago
Is CC on the web able to spawn local containers? I would need to spawn a half dozen services locally in order to have a proper simulation of my actual working environment. Tool calling and integration with various microservices (e.g. postgres, playwright) is one of the most important uses of CC for us. For example, after telling CC to implement a feature, it needs to test that feature and confirm that any database changes are the way they're supposed to.
robertwt7 11mo ago
This is very similar to Jules by Google! https://jules.google/ https://jules.google/ Although I wish that the performance of Jules is worse than Gemini CLI. I hope that this is as good as the Claude Code CLI.
CSMastermind 11mo ago
The inabillity to set up an environment with just full internet access is annoying.
- kofman 11mo ago
  You can specify * as the url whitelist. We’ll have a drop down for it shortly.
kelvinjps10 11mo ago
I was hoping that it would work with the API.
arianvanp 11mo ago
The way network Access works really feels weird to me. I wish that instead i could just do it like (or with!) nix. If i know the hash of the thing I'm fetching from the network, allow me access to it. Instead of arbitrarily allow listing domains. Imagine if this would just be able to use your nix file in your repo to fetch all the dependencies needed to run your project. That'd be extremely sick
- kofman 11mo ago
  Thanks for the suggestion! We’re working on making this smoother.
artdigital 11mo ago
So is this their version of Jules / Codex / Copilot agent? Aka autonomous agent in the cloud you give a task and it spits out a PR a bit later? It’s interesting how all the LLMs slowly end up with the same feature set and picking one really ends up with personal preference. Me as a dev am happy that I now have 4 autonomous engineers that I can delegate stuff to depending on task difficulty and rate limits. Even just Copilot + Codex has made me a lot more productive Also rip to all the startups that tried to provide “Claude in the cloud”, though this was very predictable to happen
kingstnap 11mo ago
The YouTube demo is hilarious. https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg?si=eQqY6w8kbxv3TFhQ https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg?si=eQqY6w8kbxv3TFhQ The dev just types in a prompt, scrolls down the bottom and makes a PR asking others to review without even looking at what they just did. Lmao. Know their target market for sure.
mholubowski 11mo ago
I’d really appreciate an explanation of this: How does Codex / Claude Code compare to working within Cursor with the chat and agents? Are they effectively the same thing? Is one significantly better than the other. Please share your experiences around this I’m trying to be ass effective of an engineer as I can be at our company. - Mike
retrocog 11mo ago
My productivity is exploding!
nojs 11mo ago
This is going to be extremely useful. A lot of people have hacked together similar things to get around waiting for CC to finish without mangling worktrees and branches manually. I was curious how the 'Open in CLI' works - it copies a command to clipboard like 'claude --teleport session_XXXXX', which opens the same chat in the CLI, and checks out a new branch off origin/main which it's created for the thread, called 'claude/feature-name-XXXXX'. I prefer not to use CC at the 'PR level' because it still needs too much hand-holding, so very happy to see that they've added this. Update: Session titles are either being leaked between users or have a very bad LLM writing them. I'm seeing "Update Ton Blockchain Configuration" and "Retrieve Current PIN Code" for a project that has nothing to do with blockchain or PIN codes...
- kofman 11mo ago
  Our title generation is done preemptively as you type and is a bit too eager to declare it has enough context. We’ll tweak it.
  - bonesss 11mo ago
    Sounds like a fully functioning feature to me: “make up a task to force the project managers eyes to glaze over” ;) “Quick, Claude, what have I supposedly been WorkingOn all morning? … ‘Blockchain Token Configuration Update’, perfect!”
jzig 11mo ago
Does the feature need to be toggled on somewhere? I don’t see it on web nor iOS.
- kofman 11mo ago
  It’s currently only available to max and pro users. It will be available to enterprise and teams users soon!
jimmydoe 11mo ago
total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 13Gi 306Mi 12Gi 0B 126Mi 12Gi Swap: 0B 0B 0B the sandbox has ~12G RAM, but no docker or podman allowed. unfortunately it doesn't work for me as I need docker compose or equivalent to fire up some env for local test
witnessme 11mo ago
Claude team has been killing it with the new impressive releases since last week. And this one looks most promising.
jakebasile 11mo ago
Both Anthropic and OpenAI have something like this now and neither bothered to implement a delete feature. Google’s version Jules has one.
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BohdanPetryshyn 11mo ago
They didn't even reviewed their own PR in the demo video :\
teunlao 11mo ago
Been using both daily for three months. Different tools for different jobs. Claude Code has better UX. Period. The permission system, rollbacks, plan mode - it's more polished. Iterative work feels natural. Quick fixes, exploratory coding, when I'm not sure exactly what I want yet - Claude wins. Codex is more reliable when stakes are high. Hard problems. Multi-file refactors. Complex business logic. The model just grinds through it. Less hand-holding needed. Here's the split I've landed on - Claude for fast iteration tasks where I'm actively involved. Codex for delegate-and-walk-away work that needs to be right first time. Not about which is "better" - wrong question. It's about tooling vs model capability. Claude optimized the wrapper. OpenAI optimized the engine.
insane_dreamer 11mo ago
I can already run multiple parallel tasks with Claude in multiple terminal windows, with git worktrees if working on the same repo. So I don't really understand the use case for CC on the web.
qwertox 11mo ago
I wish that a "Claude Code"-session (and a per-project-id session) could present itself in Claude Web in menu entries to create new chats which participate in the selected Claude Code session.
kdy1 11mo ago
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scamaltman 11mo ago
How many comments in this topic are written by codex bot already ?
rounakdatta 11mo ago
Now that this hosted CC is achieved, next up, I think scheduled workflows would be coming. For example, certain open-source repositories host data files scraped regularly from sources via scheduled GitHub Actions, that could be simplified.
idk1 11mo ago
This is off topic, but can anyone tell me what the genre of music is to the video on this?
r0x0r007 11mo ago
Wow, so nice! Now I can read hacker news, watch youtube shorts and solve tickets and add new features at the same time! What could go wrong!? Thanks AI!
lukaslalinsky 11mo ago
I wish this was integrated with GitHub actions, as there I can configure the environment, give it access to tools. The GitHub Actions integration is already fairly good, but having this interactive web UI would be perfect.
wolfgangbabad 11mo ago
Codex is the way.
pimterry 11mo ago
Personally, my one annoyance here is that it requires you to install a GitHub App that gives it direct write permissions to all code in your repos (in addition to issues, PRs, etc). I'd much rather give it read permissions, have it work in its own clone, and then manually pull changes back through (either with a web review UI somehow, or just pulling the changes locally). Partly for security, partly just to provide a good review gate. Would also allow using this with other people's repos, where I _can't_ give write permissions, which would be super helpful for exploring dependency repos, or doing more general research. I've found this super helpful with Claude Code locally but seems impossible on the web right now.
mvandermeulen 11mo ago
Unfortunately Anthropic have completely lost my trust. It’s very unlikely that I will ever return to purchasing from a company that behaves in the manner in which they do.
- _ink_ 11mo ago
  Why?
martypitt 11mo ago
It's interesting how most of these tools are (exclusively) Github. We're on Gitlab for historic reasons. Where Github now has numerous opporuntities to use AI as part of your workflow, there's nothing in Gitlab (from what I can tell), unless you're paying big bucks. I like using AI to boost my productivity. I'm surprised that that'll be the thing that makes me migrate to Github.
- brainless 11mo ago
  It is not easy to support multiple providers at each layer of our tech stack but if we do not then a few players become easier to pick and then they monopolize. I am trying to stay vendor neutral with my own coding agent (1). To approach this, I created a desktop app that connects to coding agent running on either my own infra or yours (local or your cloud server). Desktop app and coding agent are separate binaries. If you host on your own infra then you can bring your own AI provider too. Similarly, I want to give choice for git host. Right now I am targetting GitHub but I want to add Gitlab soon after MVP. All this has made the path to my MVP longer but I see a clear long-term aim for myself - we should have choices. 1. https://github.com/brainless/nocodo https://github.com/brainless/nocodo
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jakenuts 11mo ago
Terragon Labs does this but you can use both CC and Codex, it's a fantastic workflow for coding agents and GitHub all on your iPhone or desktop.
TechDebtDevin 11mo ago
Literally could have stopped at claude 3.5 and nothing would be different.

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_pvzn 11mo ago

This is kind of nice, as much as I love a good TUI, sometimes text editing in claude code can trip me up compared to a web GUI

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minimaxir 11mo ago

I like how in the demo video there's a squiggle emphasis on Claude's "Good Idea!" in response to a user clarification, when it's more common among vibe coders that that less glazing is better and they just want the LLM to write code.

Redster 11mo ago

Here's the link talking about the sandbox environment and features they're using for this Claude Code. https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-sandboxing https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-sandboxing

hmokiguess 11mo ago
Soon —> https://xkcd.com/2044/ https://xkcd.com/2044/

jryio 11mo ago

Pair programming is still one of the best ways to knowledge transfer between two programmers in a high throughput manner. Humans learn by doing, building synaptic connections. I wonder if a shared Claude Code instance has the same effect?

dingnuts 11mo ago
The person driving is the one that learns the most in pair programming. In the scenario you've described, that would be Claude. LLMs don't learn. Doesn't CC sometimes take twenty, thirty minutes to return an attempt? I wouldn't know, because I'm not rich and my employer has decided CC is too expensive, but I wonder what you would do with your pair programming partner while you wait. The bosses would like to think we'd start working on something else, maybe start up a different Claude instance, but can you really change contexts and back before the first one is done? You AND your partner? Nah, just go play air hockey until your boss realizes Claude is what they need, not you.
- mr_mitm 11mo ago
  Just for the record, CC is about the cost of a Netflix subscription, and it responds faster than any human can.
- astrange 11mo ago
  You can get plenty of CC on a $20/month plan.
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- myko 11mo ago
  > Nah, just go play air hockey until your boss realizes Claude is what they need, not you. This is a depressing comment. I am apprehensive about the future of software development in this milieu. I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it. Certainly part of the fun of building something was missing during that project, but it was still fun to see something new come to life. Maybe I should say I am cautiously optimistic but also concerned: I don't feel confident in the best ways to use these tools to build good software, and I'm not sure exactly what skills are useful in order to get them there.
  - losteric 11mo ago
    > I've pumped out a ~15,000 line application heavily utilizing Claude Code over a few days that seems to work, but I don't know how much to trust it. Can I ask what you built?
    - myko 11mo ago
      https://github.com/Chuntttttt/TapeDeck https://github.com/Chuntttttt/TapeDeck There was a post recently where someone linked to: https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-library-for-my-kids/ https://simplyexplained.com/blog/how-i-built-an-nfc-movie-li... and I thought the project was amazing, but I didn't like how the IDs were managed in yml, so I built this to make it more dynamic. I plan to add support for other smart home automations with it as well as more streaming services. One of the features I really like about it is it makes it easy to print and cut out stickers to slap on the NFC cards for playing media. My toddler loves it so far and one of his friend's has asked me to make one for him as well
dgunay 11mo ago
I haven't seen anyone talking about using agents in this way. I wonder if it would be helpful for learning e.g. a new language or codebase to have the human write the code while the agent takes the role of the "backseat driver" in the pair programming dynamic.

charlesabarnes 11mo ago

It's pretty frustrating that every release is IOS first without any timeline or expectation for Android

outime 11mo ago
This may explain it: https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/iphone-users-spend-apps/ https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/06/iphone-users-spend-apps/
- poly2it 11mo ago
  It is also relevant to know if a user who'd otherwise use app X on iOS would use X less on Android.
- rldjbpin 11mo ago
  this makes sense for apps where you pay up front to use it. for subscription-based services, this idea falls flat. in fact, apple made it harder for apps to take payments from its users in the past than others.
pjmlp 11mo ago
It is basically a US centric view of mobile OS market share.
- aaronbrethorst 11mo ago
  Anthropic is a US-based company.
  - OJFord 11mo ago
    With a global market and extant user base.
  - pjmlp 11mo ago
    Some companies would rather have a more international user base. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/worldwide So maybe they rather please the home market, I guess.

brynary 11mo ago

The most interesting parts of this to me are somewhat buried: - Claude Code has been added to iOS - Claude Code on the Web allows for seamless switching to Claude Code CLI - They have open sourced an OS-native sandboxing system which limits file system and network access _without_ needing containers However, I find the emphasis on limiting the outbound network access somewhat puzzling because the allowlists invariably include domains like gist.github.com and dozens of others which act effectively as public CMS’es and would still permit exfiltration with just a bit of extra effort.

minimaxir 11mo ago
Link to the GitHub for the native sandboxing: https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime https://github.com/anthropic-experimental/sandbox-runtime
- navanchauhan 11mo ago
  I used `sandbox-exec` previously before moving to a better solution (done right, sandboxing on macOS can be more powerful than Linux imo). The way `sandbox-exec` works is that all child processes inherit the same restrictions. For example, if you run `sandbox-exec $rules claude --dangerously-skip-permissions`, any commands executed by Claude through a shell will also be bound by those same rules. Since the sandbox settings are applied globally, you currently can’t grant or deny granular read/write permissions to specific tools. Using a proxy through the `HTTP_PROXY` or `HTTPS_PROXY` environment variables has its own issues. It relies on the application respecting those variables—if it doesn’t, the connection will simply fail. Sure, in this case since all other network connection requests are dropped you are somewhat protected but then an application that doesn't respect them will just not work You can also have some fun with `DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES`, but that often requires creating shims to make it work with codesigned binaries
  - joshdev 11mo ago
    What is the better solution you’ve moved on to?

jannniii 11mo ago

I’m wondering if it would be possible to use the new skills feature or agents with this. Without the agents or the skills, I don’t know how useful this would be.

simonw 11mo ago
It's running Claude Code CLI on a container for you, so skills should just work. I've not tried them myself yet though.

ea016 11mo ago

No relations to them, but I've started using Happy[0]'s iOS app to start and continue Claude Code sessions on my iPhone. It allows me to run sessions on a custom environment, like a machine with a GPU to train models [0] https://github.com/slopus/happy/ https://github.com/slopus/happy/

hmokiguess 11mo ago
This seems to be the only solution still if using bedrock or direct API access instead of Pro / Max plan, the Claude Code for Web doesn't seem to let you use it that way.
- didgeoridoo 11mo ago
  You can log in to your CC instance however you like, including via Pro/Max. Happy just wraps it and provides remote access with a much better UI than using a phone-based terminal app.
  - hmokiguess 11mo ago
    Yes, that's precisely what I meant! I was talking with regards to the parent article about Claude Code on the Web via Anthropic.
TechDebtDevin 11mo ago
Are you people just lighting money on fire? What could you possibly get done via a phone that is meaningful.

mkummer 11mo ago

Is the web interface open sourced anywhere? Looks great, excited to try it out

ubj 11mo ago

Very curious to see what usage limits are like for paid plans. Anthropic was already experiencing issues with high-volume model usage for Pro and Max users. I hope their infrastructure is able to adequately support running these additional coding environments on top of model inference. Just to be clear, I'm excited for the capability to use Claude Code entirely within the browser. However, I've heard reports of Max users experiencing throttled usage limits in recent months, and am concerned as to whether this will exacerbate that issue or not.

CharlesW 11mo ago
Anecdotally, as a Max user typically using Claude Code for >8 hours/day, I've never experienced that. That said, I'm not one of those people using Opus for everything, and in fact I've been happy using Sonnet 4.5 even for planning.
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minimaxir 11mo ago
I suspect the release of Claude Haiku 4.5 was done to help reduce usage costs for Anthropic and any use of Claude Code will differ to it if capacity is limited. EDIT: I had meant defer which is the first time I've made a /r/boneappletea in awhile
- chrisweekly 11mo ago
  "differ"? did you mean "default"?
  - scubbo 11mo ago
    I imagine "defer"

cube2222 11mo ago

This is quite nice! I'm using Claude Code locally a lot, occasionally with a couple parallel session. I was very happy when they made the GitHub Action - I used it quite a bit, but in practice I got frustrated that I effectively only get a single back-and-forth out of it, I can't really "continue the conversation without losing context" - Sure, I can respond to it in the PR it makes, but that will be a fresh session with a fresh empty context. So, as much as I don't like moving out of my standard development workflow with my tools, I think this could be quite useful. The ability to interrupt and/or continue a conversation should be very nice. My main worry is - usually my unit tests and integration tests rely on a postgres database running on the machine, and it's not obvious to me if I can spin that up here?

anon3459 11mo ago
Use pglite
radial_symmetry 11mo ago
Check out Crystal if you want a good tool for managing parallel sessions locally https://github.com/stravu/crystal https://github.com/stravu/crystal
GreekPete 11mo ago
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/tutorials/use-containerized-services/use-docker-service-containers https://docs.github.com/en/actions/tutorials/use-containeriz...
- cube2222 11mo ago
  I'm not sure how this applies? We're talking about the "Claude Code on the Web" custom sandbox, not running Claude Code in GitHub Actions.
kofman 11mo ago
You can ask Claude to install Postgres and it should just work. We'll have it. In the default image shortly.

fny 11mo ago

I've been using Happy Coder[0] for some time now on web and mobile. I run it `--yolo` mode on an isolated VM across multiple projects. With Happy, I managed to turn one of these Claude Code instances into a replacement for Claude that has all the MCP goodness I could ever want and more. [0]: https://happy.engineering/ https://happy.engineering/

ShipEveryWeek 11mo ago
This looks nice! I’ve been using terminus + tailscale to get similar results, but I’ll give this a go

lvl155 11mo ago

I am not a big fan of these. They’re trying to bundle compute and jack up the prices down the road.

jimmydoe 11mo ago
not sure why you got downvoted but adding all these bells and whistles are the way to increase the price, which in turn justify the huge investment. without 200% price increase in 3 years, there's no way any of these AI companies will survive.

simonw 11mo ago

I had a preview of this over the weekend, notes here plus some example PRs: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/claude-code-for-web/ It's really solid. It's effectively a web (and native mobile) UI over Claude Code CLI, more specifically "claude --dangerously-skip-permissions". Anthropic have recognized that Claude Code where you don't have to approve every step is massively more productive and interesting than the default, so it's worth investing a lot of resources in sandboxing.

extr 11mo ago
It’s interesting because I’ve slowly arrived at the opposite conclusion: for much of my practical day to day work, using CC with “allow edits” turned OFF results in a much better end product. I can correct it inline, I pseudo-review the code as it’s produced, etc etc. Codex is better for “fire and forget” features for sure. But Claude remains excellent at grokking intent for problems where you aren’t quite sure what you want to build yet or are highly opinionated. Mostly due to the fact it’s faster and the iteration loop is faster.
- simonw 11mo ago
  That approach should work well for projects where you are directly working on the code in tandem with Claude, but a lot of my own uses are much more research oriented. I like sending Claude Code off on a mission figure out how to do something. Here's an example from this morning, getting CUDA working on a NVIDIA Spark: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-code/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/20/deepseek-ocr-claude-co... I have a few more in https://github.com/simonw/research https://github.com/simonw/research
  - extr 11mo ago
    Very fair. Interesting how much feedback on models/tools is different right now depending on what you're doing.
  - fragmede 11mo ago
    so hey by the way, have you discovered Wispr Flow or something similar so you can talk to your computer like Scotty does?

jngiam1 11mo ago

I got so used to having Claude Code read some of my MCP tools, and was bummed to see that it couldn't connect to them yet on the web. Pretty cool though! Will need to use it for some more isolated work/code edits. Claude Code is now my workhorse for a ton of stuff including non-coding work (esp. with the right MCPs)

Stevvo 11mo ago

Guess they couldn't name it "Claude Codex"

mmaunder 11mo ago

We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI. I'm doing massive lifts with it on software that would never before have been feasible for me personally, or any team I've ever run. I'll use Claude Code maybe once every two weeks as a second set of eyes to inspect code and document a bug, with mixed success. But my experience has been that initially Claude Code was amazing and a "just take my frikkin money" product. Then Codex overtook CC and is much better at longer runs on hard problems. I've seen Claude Code literally just give up on a hard problem and tell me to buy something off the shelf. Whereas Codex's ability to profoundly increase the capabilities of a software org is a secret that's slowly getting out. I don't have any relationship with any AI company, and honestly I was rooting for Anthropic, but Codex CLI is just way way better. Also Codex CLI is cheaper than Claude Code. I think Anthropic are going to have to somehow leapfrog OpenAI to regain the position they were in around June of this year. But right now they're being handed their hat.

maherbeg 11mo ago
Yeah this has been my experience as well. The Claude Code UI is still so much better, and the permissioning policy system is much better. Though I'm working on closing that gap by writing a custom policy https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/execpolicy/README.md https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/codex-rs/execpolic... Kinda sick of Codex asking for approval to run tests for each test instance
- rtfeldman 11mo ago
  You don't have to use Codex in its terminal UI - e.g. you can use it in the Zed IDE out-the-box: https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed https://zed.dev/blog/codex-is-live-in-zed
  - PantaloonFlames 11mo ago
    And also in emacs or neovim https://xenodium.com/introducing-acpel https://xenodium.com/introducing-acpel
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mrcwinn 11mo ago

We’re moving almost entirely to Codex, first because often it’s just better, and second because it’s much cheaper. It’s a bet that they’re better now, but given capacity and funding, they’ll be better later too. The only edge Claude has is context window, which we do sometimes hit, but I’m sure that gap will close.

esafak 11mo ago
You're using the metered API rather than a subscription, right?
asdev 11mo ago
are you using the web ui, cli or both?

shireboy 11mo ago

I really want this but for Azure Devops. If you're not familiar, Microsoft owns both Github and Azure Devops, and both do similar: git repos and project management. I can use Github Copilot, Claude Code CLI, etc. against code on my disk, including Azure Devops MCP. But what I can't easily do is like Github Copilot Agent and apparently this Claude Code on Web: Assign a ticket to @SomeAi and have a PR show up in a few minutes. Can't change to github for _reasons_. Would love any suggestions if anyone in a similar story.

jimmydoe 11mo ago
ask your boss to read between the lines of this blog post: https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/azure-devops-with-github-repositories-your-path-to-agentic-ai https://developer.microsoft.com/blog/azure-devops-with-githu... (if they want employee to use more AI, ditch ADO, embrace GitHub)

neilv 11mo ago

Nit about doing your AI interfaces on the Web: I really want claude.ai and chatgpt.com to offer a standard username+password login without 2FA. The kind my privacy-friendly browser of short-lived sessions can complete in a couple clicks, like for most other SaaSes, and then I'm in and using the tool. I don't want to leak data either way by using some "let's throw SSO from a sketchy adtech company into the trust loop". I don't want to wait a minute for Anthropic's login-by-email link, and have the process slam the brakes on my workflow and train of thought. I don't want to wait a minute for OpenAI's MFA-by-email code (even though I disabled that in the account settings, it still did it). I don't want to deal with desktop clients I don't trust, or that might not keep up with feature improvements. Nor have to kludge up a clumsy virtualization sandbox for an untrusted client, just to ask an LLM questions that could just be in a Web browser.

linkregister 11mo ago
In the modern age of mass credential stuffing attacks exploiting password reuse, MFA is one of the most effective tools for reducing unauthorized logins. Companies that don't adopt it are risking unacceptably high levels of credit card chargebacks. I wish the standard were for companies to check new passwords against leaked password lists, e.g. what https://haveibeenpwned.com https://haveibeenpwned.com uses. I use a similar workflow and have found that websites that allow passkey-based login can avoid the friction of waiting for TOTP codes or magic links.
amluto 11mo ago
How about using supporting WebAuthn? The current claude.ai signin mechanism is rather annoying.

aantix 11mo ago

Does this web interface have support for AWS Bedrock?

cesarvarela 11mo ago

Does this work inside docker containers like Codex? Stuff like `testcontainers` is unusable with that architecture because you need access to docker itself.

lysecret 11mo ago
Yea it failed on testcontainers for me. The pnpm install worked fine though.

lysecret 11mo ago

Just played around with it the fact it’s on the phone is a big bonus. I have setup a little workflow where given linear tags it sets up a work tree on my dev box installs deps and starts the implementation so I can take it over I prefer this workflow to the fully managed cloud based solutions. This kind of fits in for issues where I’m basically sure I won’t have to take it over (and it can do it fully on its own). Which aren’t that many. Very simple example there was a warning pop up on something where I thought there shouldn’t be now it’s done fully automatically from my phone in 5 mins. I quite like that these small changes become so easy.

bgirard 11mo ago

Looks promising. I got my environment working well with Codex's Cloud Task. Trying to same repo with Claude Code Web (which started off with Claude Code CLI mind you), and the yarn install just hangs with no debuggable output.

arjie 11mo ago

A thing I really like with Claude Code is how well it uses the bash scripts you give it. I also have a browser control MCP installed and it's pretty good for it to full-cycle around the approach. I have a staging database that it has the passwords to that it logs in and runs queries on. This whole thing means it loops and delivers good results for me. I'll try this, but the grounding seems crucial for these LLMs to deliver results that are fewer shot than otherwise.

hugs 11mo ago
which specific functions/features of the browser control MCP do you lean on the most?
- arjie 11mo ago
  I don't use it myself so to speak, except to fill in some things sometimes like passwords. The LLM is the user. It just uses the primitives it has (these are my paraphrases): scroll_to, expand_viewport, screenshot, select_dom_element, fill_input. This way I can tell it to implement a feature and verify it and it does so in a Google Chrome testing profile. Without the grounding, I've noticed that LLMs often produce "code that should work" but then something else is missing. This way, by the time I see it, the feature works. I then have to go in and advise it on factoring and things like that, but the functionality itself is present and working.

mdeeks 11mo ago

I feel like these background agents still aren't doing what I want from a developer experience perspective. Running in an inaccessible environment that pushes random things to branches that I then have to checkout locally doesn't feel great. AI coding should be tightly in the inner dev loop! PRs are a bad way to review and iterate on code. They are a last line of defense, not the primary way to develop. Give me an isolated environment that is one click hooked up to Cursor/VSCode Remote SSH. It should be the default. I can't think of a single time that Claude or any other AI tool nailed the request on the first try (other than trivial things). I always need to touch it up or at least navigate around and validate it in my IDE.

asdev 11mo ago
so the biggest issue is having to pull down and manually edit changes? can't you just @claude on the PR to make any changes?
- mdeeks 11mo ago
  Yes, but my point is often times I don't want to. Sometimes there are changes I can make it seconds. I don't want to wait 15+ seconds for an AI that might do it wrong or do too much. Also it isn't always about editing. It is about seeing the surrounding code, navigating around, and ensuring the AI did the right thing in all of the right places.
justinram11 11mo ago
Have you checked out Ona [1] (gitpod's pivot)? [1] https://ona.com/ https://ona.com/
- mdeeks 11mo ago
  This is possibly what I want? It's hard to tell from all of the marketing on the site. I want to run a prompt that operates in an isolated environment that is open in my IDE where I can iterate with the AI. I think maybe it can do this?

bgwalter 11mo ago

I have never seen such a bunch of uncreative people who have never written a real application, never done anything artistic, never said anything intelligent try to ruin software development to the extent that the "AI" companies do. They want to turn everything into a bootstrap framework, which is probably the limit of their mental horizon. And many people maintain that the emperor is fully clothed and that the scam works.

cheema33 11mo ago
Your comment has a bit of the "old man screams at clouds" feel to it.
- bgwalter 11mo ago
  You're absolutely right and thank you for your correction! Clouds are a legitimate IT business, and it would be a factual error to dismiss them. I apologize for the error. Would you like me to print a chart of the growth of cloud businesses from 2010-2025?

low_tech_punk 11mo ago

IMHO, parallel tasks across multiple repos is not as useful as parallel tasks in one repo.

jackconsidine 11mo ago

> We were heavy users of Claude Code ($70K+ spend per year) and have almost completely switched to codex CLI Seeing comments like this all over the place. I switched to CC from Cursor in June / July because I saw the same types of comments. I switched from VSCode + Copilot about 8 months before that for the same reason. I remember being skeptical that this sort of thing was guerilla marketing, but CC was in fact better than Cursor. Guess I'll try Codex, and I guess that it's good that there are multiple competing products making big strides. Never would have imagined myself ditching IDEs and workflows 3x in a few months. A little exhausting

rorads 11mo ago
I think it’s a lot less exhausting now that the IDE part is mostly decoupled. I can’t imagine cursor continuing to compete when really all they’re doing is selling tokens either a markup, and hence crushing your context on every call. Sorry if that sounds negative but it’s true. I use CC and codex somewhat interchangeably, but I have to agree with the comments. Codex is a compete monster, and there really isn’t any competition right now.
grrowl 11mo ago
OpenAI seems to limit how "hard" your gpt-5-codex can think depending on your subscription plan; whereas Anthropic/Claude only limits how much use you get. I evaluate Codex every month or so with a problem suited to it, but rarely gets merged over a version produced by Charlie (which yes is $500/mo, but rarely causes problems) or something Claude did in a managed or unmanaged session. ymmv

dysoco 11mo ago

So from what I can understand this is only meant to be used with Claude-hosted sandbox environments? Wouldn't work for my case since I need a lot of HDD space, GPUs etc. to run the thing I'm working on, but it would be great if I could run a Claude Code server in my server, expose the port and then connect via web or iOS interface. Sure I can use tmux/ssh but it's very impractical specially in mobile.

yoavm 11mo ago

I was just working on something similar for OpenCode - pushing it now in case it's useful for someone[0]. It can run in a front-end only mode (I'll put up a hosted version soon), and then you need to specify your OpenCode API server and it'll connect to it. Alternatively, it can spin up the API server itself and proxy it, and then you just need to expose (securely) the server to the internet. The UI is responsive and my main idea was that I can easily continue directing the AI from my phone, but it's also of course possible to just spin up new sessions. So often I have an idea while I'm away from my keyboard, and being up able to just say "create an X" and let it do its thing while I'm on the go is quite exciting. It doesn't spin up a special sandbox environment or anything like that, but you're really free to run it inside whatever sandboxing solution you want. And unlike Claude Code, you're of course free to choose whatever model you want. [0] https://github.com/bjesus/opencode-web https://github.com/bjesus/opencode-web

hnidiots3 11mo ago

I wonder why people don’t just use Amp Code and use the Oracle. It’s Sonnet 4.5 + GPT-5 working together. Codex just isn’t as good as people make it out to be. OpenAI seems to train on a lot of JavaScript/Tailwind to make visuals look more impressive but when it comes to actual backend work it just fails more than it succeeds. Sonnet is much better at chewing through tasks and GPT 5 is great at consulting planning and analysis. Using Amp and asking it to check everything with the oracle leads to superior results. But no one on HN has heard of it. I’m guessing HN hates twitter?

VerminOctopus1 11mo ago
Not sure what your twitter comment is about, I use it and I’ve just never heard of this product. Looks cool, I will give it a test.
- hnidiots3 11mo ago
  Might be who you follow but it seems everyone is talking about it more and more but I never see it mentioned on HN at all. So I figure the AI enthusiasts here aren’t on Twitter. (Just an assumption) Worth trying out. The free version doesn’t have the oracle so I use the paid version.
Phlogistique 11mo ago
Because Claude is 20 bucks a month, Codex is 20 bucks a month, and any pay by token plan is way more expensive.

nextworddev 11mo ago

Developers may want to deny this, but it's getting dangerously close to maybe replacing 30% of developers

simonw 11mo ago
I continue to believe that making developers 2-3x times more productive makes those developers 2-3x more valuable, and the smart thing for companies to do is to take on 2-3x times the amount of work, or hire MORE developers and finally start crunching through their inevitably years-long backlogs.
- nextworddev 11mo ago
  Your view doesn’t mesh with conversations I have had with most C-suite. Most firms outside of SV are seeing opportunities for cost reduction mostly. And you can think through with first principles to see why it won’t expand developer hiring. Since AI progress is jagged, some industries will be affected in outsized ways while others may thrive more. But the increase in demand from new industries won’t absorb the reduction in demand from disrupted industries.

ed_mercer 11mo ago

Is CC on the web able to spawn local containers? I would need to spawn a half dozen services locally in order to have a proper simulation of my actual working environment. Tool calling and integration with various microservices (e.g. postgres, playwright) is one of the most important uses of CC for us. For example, after telling CC to implement a feature, it needs to test that feature and confirm that any database changes are the way they're supposed to.

robertwt7 11mo ago

This is very similar to Jules by Google! https://jules.google/ https://jules.google/ Although I wish that the performance of Jules is worse than Gemini CLI. I hope that this is as good as the Claude Code CLI.

CSMastermind 11mo ago

The inabillity to set up an environment with just full internet access is annoying.

kofman 11mo ago
You can specify * as the url whitelist. We’ll have a drop down for it shortly.

kelvinjps10 11mo ago

I was hoping that it would work with the API.

arianvanp 11mo ago

The way network Access works really feels weird to me. I wish that instead i could just do it like (or with!) nix. If i know the hash of the thing I'm fetching from the network, allow me access to it. Instead of arbitrarily allow listing domains. Imagine if this would just be able to use your nix file in your repo to fetch all the dependencies needed to run your project. That'd be extremely sick

kofman 11mo ago
Thanks for the suggestion! We’re working on making this smoother.

artdigital 11mo ago

So is this their version of Jules / Codex / Copilot agent? Aka autonomous agent in the cloud you give a task and it spits out a PR a bit later? It’s interesting how all the LLMs slowly end up with the same feature set and picking one really ends up with personal preference. Me as a dev am happy that I now have 4 autonomous engineers that I can delegate stuff to depending on task difficulty and rate limits. Even just Copilot + Codex has made me a lot more productive Also rip to all the startups that tried to provide “Claude in the cloud”, though this was very predictable to happen

kingstnap 11mo ago

The YouTube demo is hilarious. https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg?si=eQqY6w8kbxv3TFhQ https://youtu.be/s-avRazvmLg?si=eQqY6w8kbxv3TFhQ The dev just types in a prompt, scrolls down the bottom and makes a PR asking others to review without even looking at what they just did. Lmao. Know their target market for sure.

mholubowski 11mo ago

I’d really appreciate an explanation of this: How does Codex / Claude Code compare to working within Cursor with the chat and agents? Are they effectively the same thing? Is one significantly better than the other. Please share your experiences around this I’m trying to be ass effective of an engineer as I can be at our company. - Mike

retrocog 11mo ago

My productivity is exploding!

nojs 11mo ago

This is going to be extremely useful. A lot of people have hacked together similar things to get around waiting for CC to finish without mangling worktrees and branches manually. I was curious how the 'Open in CLI' works - it copies a command to clipboard like 'claude --teleport session_XXXXX', which opens the same chat in the CLI, and checks out a new branch off origin/main which it's created for the thread, called 'claude/feature-name-XXXXX'. I prefer not to use CC at the 'PR level' because it still needs too much hand-holding, so very happy to see that they've added this. Update: Session titles are either being leaked between users or have a very bad LLM writing them. I'm seeing "Update Ton Blockchain Configuration" and "Retrieve Current PIN Code" for a project that has nothing to do with blockchain or PIN codes...

kofman 11mo ago
Our title generation is done preemptively as you type and is a bit too eager to declare it has enough context. We’ll tweak it.
- bonesss 11mo ago
  Sounds like a fully functioning feature to me: “make up a task to force the project managers eyes to glaze over” ;) “Quick, Claude, what have I supposedly been WorkingOn all morning? … ‘Blockchain Token Configuration Update’, perfect!”

jzig 11mo ago

Does the feature need to be toggled on somewhere? I don’t see it on web nor iOS.

kofman 11mo ago
It’s currently only available to max and pro users. It will be available to enterprise and teams users soon!

jimmydoe 11mo ago

total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 13Gi 306Mi 12Gi 0B 126Mi 12Gi Swap: 0B 0B 0B the sandbox has ~12G RAM, but no docker or podman allowed. unfortunately it doesn't work for me as I need docker compose or equivalent to fire up some env for local test

witnessme 11mo ago

Claude team has been killing it with the new impressive releases since last week. And this one looks most promising.

jakebasile 11mo ago

Both Anthropic and OpenAI have something like this now and neither bothered to implement a delete feature. Google’s version Jules has one.

outofsafezone 11mo ago

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BohdanPetryshyn 11mo ago

They didn't even reviewed their own PR in the demo video :\

teunlao 11mo ago

Been using both daily for three months. Different tools for different jobs. Claude Code has better UX. Period. The permission system, rollbacks, plan mode - it's more polished. Iterative work feels natural. Quick fixes, exploratory coding, when I'm not sure exactly what I want yet - Claude wins. Codex is more reliable when stakes are high. Hard problems. Multi-file refactors. Complex business logic. The model just grinds through it. Less hand-holding needed. Here's the split I've landed on - Claude for fast iteration tasks where I'm actively involved. Codex for delegate-and-walk-away work that needs to be right first time. Not about which is "better" - wrong question. It's about tooling vs model capability. Claude optimized the wrapper. OpenAI optimized the engine.

insane_dreamer 11mo ago

I can already run multiple parallel tasks with Claude in multiple terminal windows, with git worktrees if working on the same repo. So I don't really understand the use case for CC on the web.

qwertox 11mo ago

I wish that a "Claude Code"-session (and a per-project-id session) could present itself in Claude Web in menu entries to create new chats which participate in the selected Claude Code session.

kdy1 11mo ago

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scamaltman 11mo ago

How many comments in this topic are written by codex bot already ?

rounakdatta 11mo ago

Now that this hosted CC is achieved, next up, I think scheduled workflows would be coming. For example, certain open-source repositories host data files scraped regularly from sources via scheduled GitHub Actions, that could be simplified.

idk1 11mo ago

This is off topic, but can anyone tell me what the genre of music is to the video on this?

r0x0r007 11mo ago

Wow, so nice! Now I can read hacker news, watch youtube shorts and solve tickets and add new features at the same time! What could go wrong!? Thanks AI!

lukaslalinsky 11mo ago

I wish this was integrated with GitHub actions, as there I can configure the environment, give it access to tools. The GitHub Actions integration is already fairly good, but having this interactive web UI would be perfect.

wolfgangbabad 11mo ago

Codex is the way.

pimterry 11mo ago

Personally, my one annoyance here is that it requires you to install a GitHub App that gives it direct write permissions to all code in your repos (in addition to issues, PRs, etc). I'd much rather give it read permissions, have it work in its own clone, and then manually pull changes back through (either with a web review UI somehow, or just pulling the changes locally). Partly for security, partly just to provide a good review gate. Would also allow using this with other people's repos, where I _can't_ give write permissions, which would be super helpful for exploring dependency repos, or doing more general research. I've found this super helpful with Claude Code locally but seems impossible on the web right now.

mvandermeulen 11mo ago

Unfortunately Anthropic have completely lost my trust. It’s very unlikely that I will ever return to purchasing from a company that behaves in the manner in which they do.

_ink_ 11mo ago
Why?

martypitt 11mo ago

It's interesting how most of these tools are (exclusively) Github. We're on Gitlab for historic reasons. Where Github now has numerous opporuntities to use AI as part of your workflow, there's nothing in Gitlab (from what I can tell), unless you're paying big bucks. I like using AI to boost my productivity. I'm surprised that that'll be the thing that makes me migrate to Github.

brainless 11mo ago
It is not easy to support multiple providers at each layer of our tech stack but if we do not then a few players become easier to pick and then they monopolize. I am trying to stay vendor neutral with my own coding agent (1). To approach this, I created a desktop app that connects to coding agent running on either my own infra or yours (local or your cloud server). Desktop app and coding agent are separate binaries. If you host on your own infra then you can bring your own AI provider too. Similarly, I want to give choice for git host. Right now I am targetting GitHub but I want to add Gitlab soon after MVP. All this has made the path to my MVP longer but I see a clear long-term aim for myself - we should have choices. 1. https://github.com/brainless/nocodo https://github.com/brainless/nocodo

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jakenuts 11mo ago

Terragon Labs does this but you can use both CC and Codex, it's a fantastic workflow for coding agents and GitHub all on your iPhone or desktop.

TechDebtDevin 11mo ago

Literally could have stopped at claude 3.5 and nothing would be different.