KahWee - Web Development, AI Tools & Tech Trends

Expert takes on AI tools like Claude and Sora, modern web development with React and Vite, and tech trends. By KahWee.

Claude Code Comes to the Web and iOS

Claude Code started as a CLI tool. Today it's everywhere—browser, mobile, IDE plugins, GitHub Actions. The web launch is the big one. GitHub OAuth, no setup, start coding in your browser. iOS is early but signals where this is heading.

The traction is real. $500 million in annual revenue. 10x user growth since May. Inside Anthropic, Claude Code writes 90% of their code and delivered a 67% jump in output per engineer. When your own tool works that well, you ship it everywhere.

Web vs CLI vs Mobile

Web interface runs tasks on Anthropic's cloud. You describe what you need—refactor this, upgrade dependencies, add tests. Multiple tasks run in parallel, which the CLI can't do. You get real-time progress, can steer mid-task, resume sessions later.

CLI still exists. Runs locally, direct filesystem access to your whole project, single-threaded. You control the environment. Pay-as-you-go pricing stacks up faster when you're hammering it hard.

iOS is early. Not a full desktop experience on mobile. Think of it as monitoring and light tasks—check progress on a running job, provide feedback, trigger simple refactors. Anthropic's being honest it needs refinement.

All three versions talk to GitHub the same way. Install the GitHub app, authorize access (contents, issues, PRs), add the Claude Dispatch workflow to your repo. Claude gets sandboxed access with network and filesystem restrictions. A secure proxy handles git operations so it can't touch repos you didn't authorize.

What Actually Gets Done

Refactoring. Test generation. Dependency upgrades. Bug fixing. Boilerplate scaffolding. Not glamorous, but that's the work that fills sprints. Your React project needs upgrading? Claude analyzes the codebase, identifies breaking changes, runs migrations across files. Legacy code needs performance work? Let it run the refactor while you review and integrate.

Type annotations on JavaScript files. Unit tests for new functions. Database migrations from schema changes. These maintenance tasks are where the time savings pile up—not bold architectural decisions, just repetitive work that eats days.

The web interface changes the psychology slightly. You're not running it from your editor. It feels like delegating rather than augmenting your editor. That matters for how you use it.

The Distribution Play

Before: Claude Code was trapped in Cursor or a VS Code plugin. You had to seek it out.

Now: A tab in your browser. GitHub OAuth and you're in. That's a distribution win. You can try it on a task without committing to another tool.

Pro ($20/month) and Max ($100-200/month) plans both include full Claude Code access across web, iOS, and CLI. Shared limits with regular Claude chat, reset every five hours.

It's everywhere now. Not locked in your editor anymore.