The Unreasonable Effectiveness of an Agent in a Directory

Like many others, I've played around with the "remote" functionality of various agents. For the most part, I found the utility somewhat uninspiring versus, say, a tmux session. In practice, for work, I just found I often wanted to be at my computer anyway.

Then I decided the other day that I might want to have an editor for this blog, but I kept forgetting to add it, so I just added a Claude remote session for my site root at some point so I could get to it later.

That's when I realized that having the agent sitting there meant I could build anything. Not just add a blog editor but, you know, edit the blog posts. Or build a silly feed organizer for websites. Or a Japanese vocab app.

It's all just apps and Docker containers at the end of the day, and now agents are so good that I don't need to be deeply involved to get something more than good enough for my pet projects.

It's such a blast to sit there playing with your app on the phone and just tell Claude to add a new feature and see it immediately. I know this is old news to most folks (I'm sure should I ever try out OpenClaw it'd be the non plus ultra version of this idea), but if you have a web server and haven't tried it yet, you're missing out on a million little apps you never thought you needed.