Anthropic has launched a web app for its viral AI coding assistant, Claude Code, allowing developers to create and manage autonomous coding agents directly from their browsers.
The launch, announced Monday, expands access to one of the industry’s fastest-growing AI developer tools, marking a new phase in Anthropic’s push to make AI agents an integral part of software engineering workflows.
Claude Code for web is now available to subscribers of Anthropic’s paid plans — including the $20-per-month Pro plan and the $100 and $200-per-month Max plans. Users can access it at claude.ai by clicking the “Code” tab or through the Claude iOS app. The expansion brings the company’s coding platform beyond its original command-line interface (CLI), which developers previously had to run from a terminal.
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Anthropic’s Product Manager, Cat Wu, told TechCrunch that the goal is to make Claude Code more accessible. “As we look forward, one of our key focuses is making sure the CLI product is the most intelligent and customizable way for you to use coding agents,” Wu said. “But we’re continuing to put Claude Code everywhere, helping it meet developers wherever they are. Web and mobile are a big step in this direction.”
The company says that 90 percent of the Claude Code product itself is written by its own AI models — a sign of how far autonomous development tools have come. Wu, who was previously a software engineer, said she now spends most of her time reviewing AI-generated outputs rather than manually writing code.
Since its wider launch in May, Claude Code has seen a tenfold increase in users, and the product now generates more than $500 million in annualized revenue for Anthropic. Wu attributes the growth to the company’s large language models, which she says have become a favorite among developers because of their reasoning ability and reliability.
The web version arrives amid intensifying competition in the AI developer tools space. Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot, once the dominant player, now faces strong rivals in OpenAI’s GPT-powered assistants, Google’s Gemini Code Assist, and Cursor, another AI coding agent that has gained traction among startups. Anthropic joins competitors that already offer web-based environments by moving beyond the command line, further blurring the line between developer tools and AI collaboration platforms.
Unlike early AI coding tools, which worked primarily as autocompletion engines that filled in lines of code, the latest generation — known as agentic coding tools — can perform complex, multi-step tasks independently. Developers can assign goals to these AI agents, which then plan, write, debug, and document code autonomously. This has turned many software engineers into managers of AI systems rather than direct code writers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei predicted earlier this year that AI will soon write “90 percent of all software code,” describing the shift as inevitable. Inside Anthropic, that prediction has already materialized: Claude Code’s own development pipeline is largely automated by the company’s AI models.
However, not all developers are convinced that AI agents improve productivity. A recent study found that engineers using tools like Cursor were sometimes slower than those coding manually. Researchers suggested that users spent significant time crafting prompts or correcting AI-generated code, which offset the time saved in writing. Large, complex codebases also remain challenging for most AI systems to navigate accurately, meaning engineers often have to double-check or rewrite sections of the output.
Against the backdrop of limitations, companies across the industry are racing to refine their tools. Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic have all been repositioning their AI products as collaborative partners rather than passive assistants. In that context, Anthropic’s move to bring Claude Code to the web represents both a technological and strategic step: an effort to anchor AI coding assistants in the daily workflow of developers everywhere.
Wu confirmed that the company is not abandoning the command-line interface, calling it “the home base” for power users. But she said the new web interface will make Claude Code more approachable for developers experimenting with AI-driven coding for the first time.
As developers adjust to a new era of software creation, Anthropic’s experiment with autonomous AI coders could serve as an early signal of how deeply automation will reshape the profession.