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Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

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Re: Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

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Post by pelagicAustral »

joshmlewis wrote: post #28

As someone who builds AI products and having used agentic coding tools since they came out (often with Rails projects), I don't get this. There was a similar project called Rails MCP Server which said: > "This Rails MCP Server implements the MCP specification to give AI models access to Rails projects for code analysis, exploration, and assistance." And again I don't get the value. I can see some slight benefits to h…

I've been using it for a few hours and I find that it struggles at times with some of the instructions, it completely obliterated a modal and overall I didn't felt like I trusted it too much with larger tasks, but then I started working with Claude Code on a console, and Tidewave on my browser and the workflow is pleasing, I only give UI portions of work to Tidewave and it works well, it's nice to be able to select elements and pass instructions for refactoring UI... this is only from like 2 or 3 hours of testing...

Re: Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

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Post by josevalim »

elepedus wrote: post #36

I'm super-conflicted about this. I've been loving Tidewave MCP since the day it launched and I wish I had that for all my work. I also fight the pain of driving web browsers through the playwright MCP every day, and while it's a huge help, it's also massively slow and kills my context window. I want these problems solved. But I want them solved in a way that isn't unique to one stack, because I don't have the luxury…

I hear you. I'd love to integrate with whatever model subscription is available but it seems using Max outside of Claude products is against their terms. I suggest reaching out to Anthropic and letting them know you would like to use your Max subscription with other coding agents.

Re: Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

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Post by taatparya »

josevalim wrote: post #30
joshmlewis wrote: post #28

As someone who builds AI products and having used agentic coding tools since they came out (often with Rails projects), I don't get this. There was a similar project called Rails MCP Server which said: > "This Rails MCP Server implements the MCP specification to give AI models access to Rails projects for code analysis, exploration, and assistance." And again I don't get the value. I can see some slight benefits to h…

As you said, the best would be for you to give it a try and see the benefits in practice (if any). Beyond that, I can add to two points you brought up: First, Playwright MCP is really not enough. For example, imagine you are building a project management software and you are working on a feature for transferring tasks between projects. Testing this feature requires at least a user who is admin and at least two projec…

Does it include support for Ash framework?

Re: Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

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Post by josevalim »

taatparya wrote: post #43
josevalim wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As you said, the best would be for you to give it a try and see the benefits in practice (if any). Beyond that, I can add to two points you brought up: First, Playwright MCP is really not enough. For example, imagine you are building a project management software and you are working on a feature for transferring tasks between projects. Testing this feature requires at least a user who is admin and at least two projec…

Does it include support for Ash framework?

It should just work. Ping me if you run into any issues!

Re: Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix

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Post by benzible »

obiefernandez wrote: post #46

Nonstarter if can’t use it with Max plan

Jose commented on that that elsewhere:

> I'd love to integrate with whatever model subscription is available but it seems using Max outside of Claude products is against their terms. I suggest reaching out to Anthropic and letting them know you would like to use your Max subscription with other coding agents.

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