Claude in Chrome

Let's spend years plugging holes in V8, splitting browser components to separate processes and improving sandboxing and then just plug in LLM with debugging enabled into Chrome. Great idea. Last time we had such a great idea it was lead in gasoline.

This made me want to laugh so hard. I think this idea came from the same place as beta testing “Full Autopilot” with human guinea pigs. Great minds…

Jokes aside, Anthropic CEO commands a tad more respect from me, on taking a more principals approach and sticking to it (at least better than their biggest rival). Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.

>Also for inventing the code agent in the terminal category.

Not even close. That distinction belongs to Aider, which was released 1.5 years before Claude Code.

let me be a date-time nerd for a split second:

- Claude Code released Introducing Claude Code video on 24 Feb 2025 [0]

- Aider's oldest known GitHub release, v0.5.0, is dated 8 Jun 2025 [1]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJpK3YTTKZ4

[1]: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/releases/tag/v0.5.0

Wrong. So wrong, in fact, that I’m wondering if it’s intentional. Aider was June 2023.