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Tidewave
Company blog · tidewave.ai/blogaiprogramming
Tidewave is the company blog at tidewave.ai, writing about ai and programming. Since 2025, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “Tidewave”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Tidewave's site for its MCP server and in-browser coding agent for Rails, Phoenix and JavaScript apps, which gives AI agents access to the running app.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The complete AI dev toolkit for Phoenix and Rails
Most-linked posts?
- Tidewave6 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2025-04-29
- Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-08-19
- The future of coding agents is vertical integration (and why ACP matters)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-02-10
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-08-29
What Hacker News says?
It's not my website, but I do use the free mcp with CC. https://tidewave.ai
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on “Claude Code on the web”Submitted Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix as a story · 299 points
HN discussionOne aspect of using LLM's to code that I have not seen mentioned is the "loss of attachment" to code in my projects. For example, working on my project ( https://mudg.fly.dev ) I wanted to experiment with a new FE graph library. I asked an llm the fantastic ( https://tidewave.ai ) and it completely implemented a solution, which turned out to be worse than the current solution. If I had spent many hours working on a…
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on “Some thoughts on LLMs and software development”Submitted Tidewave as a story · 26 points
HN discussionLooks similar to Elixir's Tidewave MCP server, which currently also supports Ruby: https://tidewave.ai/ Paraphrasing: Connect your editor's assistant to your web framework runtime via MCP and augment your agentic workflows and chats with: Database integration; Logs and runtime introspection; Code evaluation; and Documentation context. Edit: Re-reading MCP-B docs, that is more geared towards allowing visitors to your…
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on “MCP-B: A Protocol for AI Browser Automation”Submitted Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix as a story · 22 points
HN discussionAs 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 proje…
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on “Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix”Submitted Tidewave: Beyond Code Intelligence as a story · 8 points
HN discussionWhy does it forward to https://tidewave.ai/ when I type http://localhost:4000/tidewave ?
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on “Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix”Submitted Improving web accessibility with trace-augmented generation as a story · 5 points
HN discussionYou can think of Tidewave MCP as integrating the agent with the language runtime, while Tidewave Web integrates the agent with your actual app and its interface. It knows your views and templates, it can correlate it with the rendered page, and then automate the browser to implement and validate features. Our announcement post goes more into detail and explains why moving the agent to the browser means you (the deve…
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on “Tidewave Web: in-browser coding agent for Rails and Phoenix”Submitted Claude Code and OpenAI Codex: Now Available in Tidewave as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIt's definitely worth taking another look. The Ash DSLs get full autocomplete from your LSP and so make sure this is setup. The new Elixir LSP called Expert - https://expert-lsp.org/ is coming soon and aims to make this a much smoother process. The documentation has been overhauled multiple times and is constantly being improved. If you encounter issues please raise an issue or a PR, knowing where users get confused…
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on “Ash Framework – Model your domain, derive the rest”Submitted Tidewave OpenRouter and OpenAI API Support as a story · 2 points
HN discussionI've been using TideWave[1] for the last few months and it has this built-in. It started off as an Elixir/LiveView thing but now they support popular JavaScript frameworks and RoR as well. For those who like this, check it out. It even takes it further and has access to the runtime of your app (not just the browser). The agent basically is living inside your running app with access to databases, endpoints etc. It's…
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on “Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP”Submitted A new way to use Tidewave: from your terminal or editor as a story · 1 points
HN discussionYeah, this is pretty much how Tidewave works, but passes the HTML/JavaScript reference instead of a picture: https://tidewave.ai/
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on “Shall I implement it? No”Submitted You don't need ten agents. You need two tracks as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThere is a tool called Tidewave that allows you to point and click at an issue and it will pass the DIV or ID or something to the LLM so it knows exactly what you are talking about. Works pretty well. https://tidewave.ai/
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on “Shall I implement it? No”Submitted Designing code review for human-agent collaboration as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of coding agents is vertical integration (and why ACP matters) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The future of coding agents is vertical integration (and why ACP matters) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tidewave adds React support as a story · 1 points
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