Anthropic on Monday released a web app for its viral AI coding assistant, Claude Code. This allows developers to create and manage multiple AI coding agents from the browser.
Claude Code for Web is currently rolling out to subscribers of Anthropic’s $20/month Pro plan and $100 and $200/month Max plans. Pro and Max users can access Claude Code on the web by going to claude.ai (the same website as Anthropic’s consumer chatbot) and clicking the “Code” tab, or through the Claude iOS app.
This announcement marks Anthropic’s latest effort to evolve Claude Code beyond a command-line interface (CLI) tool that developers access from a terminal. By putting Claude Code on the web, Anthropic hopes developers will launch AI coding agents in more places.
Competition is becoming more intense for technology companies looking to make their AI coding tools stand out. Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot once dominated this space, but Cursor, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now have their own powerful AI coding tools, many of which are already available on the web. That said, Claude Code is definitely one of the most popular. Anthropic’s flagship coding tool has seen a 10x increase in users since its big launch in May, and the product now accounts for more than $500 million of the company’s revenue on an annual basis.
Anthropic product manager Cat Wu told TechCrunch that much of Claude Code’s success is due to the company’s AI models, which have become popular among developers in recent years. But Wu also said that the Claude Code team intentionally tries to “sprinkle fun” into the product as much as possible.
Wu said Anthropic will continue to bring Claude Code to more locations, but the terminal will likely remain the home of the company’s AI coding products.
“Looking forward, one of our key focuses is to ensure that our CLI product is the most intelligent and customizable way to use coding agents,” said Wu. “But we will continue to put Claude Code everywhere and help developers meet them wherever they are. Web and mobile are a big step in this direction.”
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Anthropic claims that 90% of the Claude Code product itself is written by its AI models. A former engineer, Wu says he rarely sits down at a keyboard to write code, mostly just reviewing the output of Claude Code.
Early AI coding tools worked like autocomplete tools, completing lines of code as developers wrote code. However, agent generation in AI coding tools, including Claude Code, allows developers to launch agents that operate autonomously. This shift has led millions of software engineers to act like managers of AI coding assistants in their daily work.
This change is not welcomed by all developers. A recent study found that some engineers find that using AI coding tools like Cursor actually slows them down. The researchers suggested that a possible contributing factor may be that the engineers in the study spent more time prompting and waiting for the AI tools to complete, rather than working on other problems. AI coding tools can’t handle large, complex code bases either, so engineers may have spent a lot of time dealing with incorrect responses from AI models.
Nevertheless, companies like Anthropic continue to develop AI coding agents. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted a few months ago that AI would soon be writing 90% of the code for software engineers. That may be true within Anthropic, but it may take longer for this change to take effect across the economy.
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