Anthropic just gave its viral AI coding sidekick, Claude Code, a shiny new home on the web and it’s ready to ditch the command line hoodie for a browser-friendly interface.
Starting this week, subscribers on Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan and the pricier Max tiers ($100 and $200 a month) can now use Claude Code right from claude.ai under a new Code tab.
Its also available in the Claude iOS app if they’re more mobile-minded.
Until now, Claude Code lived mostly in the terminal, a place developers know well but secretly dread.
With this new web version, Anthropic hopes more coders will spin up and manage AI coding agents without needing to memorize any cryptic commands.
The move also makes sense in today’s arms race of AI-powered developer tools.
Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot may have kicked things off, but rivals like Google, Cursor, OpenAI, and now Anthropic are all vying to be the coding companion that devs trust.
Claude Code, however, has been having a moment. Anthropic says usage has grown 10x since its May launch, now generating a cool $500 million in annualized revenue.
Product manager Cat Wu told TechCrunch that Claude Code’s success comes from Anthropic’s increasingly capable AI models, and from the team’s philosophy of “sprinkling in some fun.”
Wu admits the terminal version isn’t going anywhere, it’s still home base for serious devs who want full customization.
But expanding to the web (and mobile) means Claude Code can meet developers wherever they are, even if that’s on a café Wi-Fi connection.
Interestingly, 90% of Claude Code is written by Claude Code itself. Wu says she barely writes code anymore, instead reviewing what the AI produces.
It’s the clearest sign yet of where software engineering is headed: developers managing AI that writes code for them.
Some studies say this can actually slow people down, but Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei thinks the opposite, soon, he says, AI could be writing 90% of all code.
