[suninsight]

I think if you use Cursor, using Claude Code is a huge upgrade. The problem is that Cursor was a huge upgrade from the IDE, so we are still getting used to it.

The company I work for builds a similar tool - NonBioS.ai. It is in someways similar to what the author does above - but packaged as a service. So the nonbios agent has a root VM and can write/build all the software you want. You access/control it through a web chat interface - we take care of all the orchestration behind the scene.

Its also in free Beta right now, and signup takes a minute if you want to give it a shot. You can actually find out quickly if the Claude code/nonbios experience is better than Cursor.

[CuriouslyC]

I think the path forward there is slack/teams/discord/etc integration of agents, so you can monitor and control whatever agent software you like via a chat interface just like you would interact with any other teammate.

[suninsight]

So we tried that route - but problem is that these interfaces aren't suited for asynchronous updates. Like if the agent is working for the next hour or so - how do you communicate that in mediums like these. An Agent, unlike a human, is only invoked when you give it a task.

If you use the interface at nonbios.ai - you will quickly realize that it is hard to reproduce on slack/discord. Even though its still technically 'chat'

[CuriouslyC]

On Slack I think threads are fine for this. Have an agent work channel, and they can just create a thread for each task and just dump updates there. If an agent is really noisy about its thinking you might need a loglevel toggle but in my experience with Claude Code/Cursor you could dump almost everything they're currently emitting to the UI into a thread.

It's still nice to have a direct web interface to agents, but in general most orgs are dealing with service/information overload and chat is a good single source of truth, which is why integrations are so hot.