Ask HN: How are you enabling your employees to do AI dev in the cloud?

2 points by nate 17 days ago | 2 comments

Sure, us engineers can Claude Code up a storm locally on our laptops these days. But now with everyone trying to vibe code everything, there's quite a few people that don't have a "proper" local dev environment to do that same kind of development. Let's just take running a test suite. Our devs need a pretty beefy environment to run that.

So ideally, these environments are just in the cloud. But Claude Code web, is so "environment lite" that it really isn't a substitute. Or are you all having Claude Code web install a bunch of dependancies and even API keys to do things there?

I've got a system of VMs that get deployed now that I'm encouraging folks use, because Claude can just use those cloud VMs directly to work on code, run tests and things without a full slow CI workflow. But it seems so fragile.

What are you all using to power up employees at your company with dev environments something like Claude can use without those employees actually having local dev environments?

uberman 17 days ago |

Why does a local LLM change your testing workflow?

nate 17 days ago | |

Not sure I follow. I wasn't talking about local LLMs. I'm trying to identify how folks are managing their employees using essentially Claude Code local vs Claude Code web. The web seems to be the version you'd ask non-engineer type folks to use to "vibe code" but Clode Code web is so neutered from an environment perspective.

I'm assuming there's some OpenCode/OpenRouter kind of VM framework some folks here are using to power up Claude Code in VMs for their employees to get the best of both worlds while just being in the cloud.