# I Was Too Lazy to Open Five AI Tabs, So I Built AgentWebUI 🦥 > Source: > Published: 2026-10-25 00:30:07+00:00 *This is a submission for the [Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady](https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week3-2026-10-19)* Did you know the chainsaw was originally invented to help with childbirth? Two Scottish doctors in the late 1700s looked at a hard, slow, painful job and thought: *there has to be a lazier way.* A few centuries later, we use it to cut down trees and star in horror movies. That's the thing about laziness. It's not a character flaw. It's the R&D department of the human race. So here's my confession. My AI workflow had become a part-time job. Claude Code in one terminal. Codex in another. A local Llama in Ollama. DeepSeek in a browser tab I kept losing. Every task started with the same ritual: *which tab was I in, and where did I put that conversation?* OpenWebUI was supposed to fix this. Instead, I spent an afternoon trying to plug an agent into it and ended up with a lot of YAML and no agent. So, like any respectable sloth, I did the laziest possible thing. I asked two friends who are almost as lazy as me, and together we built one tool so none of us would ever have to do that again. **AgentWebUI** is a lightweight, self-hosted, agent-first web UI. One server, one sidebar, every AI model and agent you use. You open it, it says "Good evening", and it asks you one question: *ask anything, or hand a task to an agent?* That second option is the whole point. You don't do the work. You delegate it, then go lie down. What it lets you be lazy about: **Who gets to be lazier?** Any developer juggling more than one AI tool. Which, in 2026, is every developer. **Try it live:** [agentwebui.hackershostel.com](https://agentwebui.hackershostel.com/#/) On the home screen, the sidebar holds a DeepSeek chat, a Claude Code workspace, Codex, OpenAI and Gemini, all in one list. The model picker says **llama3.2:3b**, running locally. That's five tools' worth of tabs I no longer have to open. One small web page to chat with AI models and with command-line agents, on your own server. Open it and chat there is no setup screen and no accounts. Everything is configured in `.env`. The package and command are still named `agentwebui-lite`. The server is about 3,000 lines of Python with one dependency (`aiohttp`) and uses about 40 MB of memory. The web client is Preact through htm with no build step. Nothing loads from the internet unless you pick a font other than Geist. Setup, written for people who also don't want to read setup instructions: ``` git clone https://github.com/HackersHostel/AgentWebUI.git cd AgentWebUI cp .env.example .env # fill in your models and agents docker compose up -d ``` Then open it in your browser and go back to lying down. The design rule was simple: **agents are the main character, chat is the supporting cast.** In most UIs it's the other way around. Because the laziest model is the one you never have to ask permission to use. A closed, single-vendor tool can't do this. It wants you in *its* tab. AgentWebUI is just one tab, and it's yours. A scientific study, conducted by me, on my own laziness: | Task | Before | With AgentWebUI | |---|---|---| | Find the right AI tool | Open 4 tabs, 2 terminals, sigh | One dropdown | | Find yesterday's chat | Check every app's history | ⌘K | | Try a new open model | New tool, new install, new login | Edit env file, restart | | Hand off a coding task | Open a terminal, set up the agent | Pick Claude Code, type the task | The chainsaw doctors would be proud. Hard job in, lazy solution out. Entering for the overall prize. Built with [@tahrimwalid](https://dev.to/tahrimwalid) and [@mahedi](https://dev.to/mahedi), who are almost as lazy as me. If you're a developer with more AI tabs than browser memory, give AgentWebUI a spin. Then do what the sloths do: delegate, relax, and let the agents earn their keep. 🦥