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Anthropic has already found major success with its own coding tool, Claude Code. The company announced on Monday that Claude Code has generated over $500 million in revenue since its release in February, and Anthropic is now bringing it to additional platforms in order to make vibe coding more accessible. Previously, using Claude Code took some technical expertise: it was only available as a command line interface within your computer terminal, or as a plugin within an integrated development environment, also known as an IDE. Terminals and IDEs are how professional software developers write and edit code, says Claude Code product manager Cat Wu, so it made sense to start there. But over time, Wu realized that non-technical people were also using Claude Code, so the team started experimenting with new form factors. “Everywhere that a developer is doing work,” she says, “whether that’s on web and mobile or other tools, we want Claude to be easily accessible there.” Wu admits that Claude Code on web and mobile is still a fairly technical experience. For instance, users must connect to Github in order to create new files, and aren’t able to see a live preview of their work in the app like in Claude.ai, Anthropic’s consumer-facing chat platform. Wu says that her team will bring more visual elements into Claude Code for the web in the coming months to make the experience more intuitive for non-technical vibe coders. Meanwhile, Google has also put significant resources into making vibe coding more accessible. On Tuesday, the company released a big update to Google AI Studio, its AI-assisted coding platform, specifically aimed at vibe coders. In a video, Google AI Studio product lead Logan Kilpatrick explained that in this new ‘vibe coding experience,” users can write out the idea for their app, and then select the specific AI-powered elements that they want to include in their app, like generating images, integrating an AI chatbot, and prioritizing low-latency responses. When vibe coding through the platform, Kilpatrick said, Google AI Studio will generate suggestions for next steps in the form of clickable buttons. The platform also makes it easy for users to deploy their apps to the internet, either through Google Cloud or Github. According to Kilpatrick, Google AI Studio is free to use, but will charge for access to its most advanced AI models.
