I’m a very heavy user of Claude Code on the web (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-code-on-the-web), Anthropic’s excellent but poorly named cloud version of Claude Code where everything runs in a container environment managed by them, greatly reducing the risk of anything bad happening to a computer I care about.

I don’t use the web interface at all (hence my dislike of the name) - I access it exclusively through their native iPhone and Mac desktop apps.

Something I particularly appreciate about the desktop app is that it lets you see images that Claude is “viewing” via its Read /path/to/image tool. Here’s what that looks like:

This means you can get a visual preview of what it’s working on while it’s working, without waiting for it to push code to GitHub for you to try out yourself later on.

The prompt I used to trigger the above screenshot was:

Run “uvx rodney –help” and then use Rodney to manually test the new pages and menu - look at screenshots from it and check you think they look OK

I designed Rodney (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/#rodney-cli-browser-automation-designed-to-work-with-showboat) to have –help output (https://github.com/simonw/rodney/blob/main/help.txt) that provides everything a coding agent needs to know in order to use the tool.

The Claude iPhone app doesn’t display opened images yet, so I requested it as a feature (https://twitter.com/simonw/status/2023432616066879606) just now in a thread on Twitter.

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