# Why I gave Claude Code a computer instead of building another IDE > Source: > Published: 2026-09-03 09:55:50+00:00 Most "AI coding" products still put a chat window next to your editor and call it a day. I wanted something closer to what Claude Code already does well on a server: give it a real computer and let it drive. Superagent is a Mac app that gives Claude Code (or any agent you point it at) an actual environment to work in, not just a text box. Concretely: The core idea is boring on purpose: don't build a smarter chat window, build a better place for the agent to act. Most of the interesting failures I hit while building this weren't in the model, they were in the environment: synthetic file inputs that don't persist through a web form's upload component, elements that exist in the DOM but aren't in the accessibility tree, simulator state that drifts from what a screenshot shows. Fixing those is what actually makes an agent reliable to hand a task to. It's built as three pieces: an Electron desktop app, a SwiftUI iOS companion, and a small Cloudflare Worker relay that pairs the two with per-address rate limits so a lost phone can't be used to spam a stranger's Mac. If you want to see it: [https://peerlist.io/pungme/project/superagent-for-mac](https://peerlist.io/pungme/project/superagent-for-mac) Happy to answer questions about the browser automation approach, the simulator driving, or the relay's pairing/security model in the comments.