Anthropic released a web app on Monday for its Viral AI coding assistant, Claude Code, which lets developers create and manage several AI coding agents from their browser.
Claude Code for the web is now available to subscribers of Anthropic’s $20 per month Pro plan, as well as $100 and $200 per month Max plans. Pro and Max users can access Code Claude on the web by going to claude.ai (the same site for Anthropic’s consumer chatbot) and clicking on the Code tab.
The release 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 deploy AI coding agents in more places.
It’s increasingly competitive for tech companies trying to make their AI coding tools stand out. While Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot once dominated the space, Cursor, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now have their own high-performance AI coding tools — many of which are already available on the web. That being said, Claude Code is arguably one of the most popular. Anthropic’s flagship coding tool has grown 10x in users since its wider release in May, and the product now accounts for more than $500 million of the company’s annual revenue.
Anthropic Product Manager Cat Wu tells TechCrunch in an interview that she attributes much of Claude Code’s success to the company’s AI models, which have become a favorite among developers in recent years. However, Wu also says that the Claude Code team is deliberately trying to “have fun” in the product where they can.
Wu said Anthropic will continue to put Claude Code in more places, but the terminal will likely remain the mainstay for the AI coding product.
“As we look forward, one of our key goals is to ensure that the CLI product is the most intelligent and customizable way to use encoding agents,” Wu said. “But we’re still putting Claude Code everywhere, helping it meet developers wherever they are. Web and mobile is a big step in that direction.”
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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 looks at Claude Code results.
Early AI coding tools worked like an auto-completion tool, completing lines of code as programmers wrote them. But the agent-based generation of AI coding tools—including Claude Code—allows developers to spin agents that operate autonomously. This change has made millions of software engineers act more like managers of AI coding assistants in their daily tasks.
The change was not welcomed by every developer. A recent study found that some engineers were actually slower when using AI coding tools like Cursor. The researchers suggested that one factor could be that the engineers in the study spent much of their time prompting and waiting for the AI tools to finish, rather than working on other problems. AI coding tools also struggle on large, complex codebases, so engineers may have spent a lot of time getting incorrect answers from the AI model.
Despite this, companies like Anthropic continue to push the construction of AI coding agents. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted a few months ago that artificial intelligence should soon write 90% of the code for software engineers. While this may be true within Anthropic, the shift may take longer to see through to the wider economy.
