Anthropic brings Cloud Code to the web

Anthropic launched a web app Monday for its viral AI coding assistant, Claude Code, that lets developers create and manage multiple AI coding agents from their browser.

Claude Code for the web is now rolling out to subscribers of the $20 per month Anthropic Pro plan, as well as the $100 and $200 per 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 on the “Code” tab, or through the Claude iOS app.

This launch represents Anthropic’s latest attempt to evolve Claude Code beyond a command-line interface (CLI) tool that developers access from a terminal. By putting Cloud Code on the web, Anthropic hopes developers will be able to use AI crypto agents in more places.

It’s increasingly competitive with tech companies trying to showcase their AI coding tools. While Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot once dominated the space, Cursor, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now have high-performance AI coding tools of their own — many of which are already available on the web. However, Claude Code is arguably one of the most famous. Anthropic’s flagship programming tool has grown 10x in users since its broader launch in May, and the product now accounts for more than $500 million of the company’s revenue year-over-year.

Human Product Manager Kat Wu told TechCrunch in an interview that she attributes a large portion of Claude Code’s success to the company’s AI models, which have become favorites among developers in recent years. However, Wu also says that the Claude Code team is intentionally trying to “inject some fun” into the product wherever they can.

Anthropic will continue to put Claude Code in more places, but the terminal will likely remain the home base for its AI coding product, Wu said.

“As we look forward, one of our key focuses is ensuring that the CLI product is the most intelligent and customizable way to use coding agents,” Wu said. “But we’re continuing to put Claude Code everywhere, helping it meet developers where they are. Web and mobile are a big step in that direction.”

Anthropic claims that 90% of the Claude Code product itself is written by the company’s AI models. Wu, who was previously an engineer, says she rarely sits down at a keyboard to write code anymore, and mostly just reviews CloudCode output.

Early AI coding tools worked like an autocomplete tool, finishing lines of code as developers wrote them. But the agent generation of AI coding tools — including Claude Code — allows developers to spin up agents that operate autonomously. This shift has made millions of software engineers act as managers of AI coding assistants in their daily jobs.

The change was not welcome to every developer. One recent study found that some engineers were actually slower when using AI coding tools like Cursor. The researchers suggested that one factor may be that the engineers in the study spent too much of their time demanding and waiting for AI tools to finish, rather than working on other problems. AI coding tools also struggle with large, complex code bases, so engineers may have spent a lot of time working on incorrect responses from the AI ​​model.

However, companies like Anthropic continue to move forward with manufacturing AI crypto agents. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted a few months ago that AI would soon be writing 90% of code for software engineers. While this may be true within Anthropology, the transformation may take longer to materialize in the broader economy.