{"slug": "shelley", "name": "Shelley", "category": "ai-coding", "category_name": "AI coding tools", "description": "", "recommenders": 8, "commenters": 14, "warners": 0, "score": 7.568, "rising": 1.04, "first": "2025-12-23", "latest": "2026-09-23", "why": "They have a coding agent called Shelley (https://exe.dev/shelley) that works fine in a web browser on my laptop, tablet, and phone.", "why_is_quote": true, "has_verdict": false, "sentiment": {"recommend": 14, "neutral": 11, "compare": 0, "warn": 1}, "spark": [0, 2, 1, 1, 1, 3, 0, 1, 2, 1, 2, 0], "listed": true, "loved": [], "caveat": "", "short_quote": "They have a coding agent called Shelley (https://exe.dev/shelley) that works fine in a web browser on my laptop, tablet, and phone.", "kind": "", "icon": true, "domain": null, "github_repo": "github.com/boldsoftware/shelley", "official_url": "https://exe.dev/shelley", "pricing": "", "aliases": ["Shelley", "shelley"], "verdict": null, "praise": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 797075297, "item_id": 49817206, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49817206", "by": "abtinf", "date": "2026-09-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Shelley is a fantastic agent", "excerpt": "For me, the essential difference between exe and local harnesses is that they have really nice built in methods to take care of stuff like auth and inter-vm interactions, which makes it easy to build live internet-connected services that I can share with other people. There is no deploy step, which is a surprising amount of time savings. They also have nice things like email receive/send, the ability to issue phone n", "context": "", "use_case": "AI agent on exe.dev VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Opus 5.5"}, {"id": 796917985, "item_id": 49807374, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807374", "by": "ChaseRensberger", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "another Go harness i keep up to date with is:", "excerpt": "happy to see more harnesses in the Go space, i've had a fun time building https://github.com/ChaseRensberger/wingman i think the language primitives map well to the natural desire to use these tools across networks and in concurrent workloads. another Go harness i keep up to date with is: https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley (exe.dev team)", "context": "", "use_case": "Go agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Unreal Agent"}, {"id": 792079984, "item_id": 49504999, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504999", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use my budget with Shelley on exe.dev.", "excerpt": "Similarly, I use my budget with Shelley on exe.dev. But it seems nice that as far as I can tell, for ChatGPT usage, coding agents compete on a level footing. I still might try ChatGPT Work sometime if there was some feature I couldn't get from Shelley.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Understanding ChatGPT Work"}, {"id": 788773248, "item_id": 49298328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298328", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Shelley is very good", "excerpt": "If you like running everything in a VM and using a web browser as your UI, Shelley is very good: https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley It works nicely in the browsers on my tablet and phone, too. On exe.dev you can ask it to customize itself, and it will automatically rebase your customizations when upgrading to a new release.", "context": "", "use_case": "web-based coding agent in a VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities"}, {"id": 785964912, "item_id": 49122807, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122807", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-07-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The coding agent I use (Shelley on exe.dev) has a pulldown menu where you choose the LLM when starting a new conversation. There is no lock-in.", "excerpt": "The coding agent I use (Shelley on exe.dev) has a pulldown menu where you choose the LLM when starting a new conversation. There is no lock-in. Conversations are not precious. Although, I do use ChatGPT more nowadays because their subscriptions work with Shelley. Sometimes I try other models after I hit the weekly cap on the subscription.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Session You Cannot take with you"}]}], "caveats": [{"label": "", "summary": "", "quotes": [{"id": 745869985, "item_id": 46616874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616874", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-01-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "haven't figured out how to get Shelley working yet", "excerpt": "I've started a project [1] recently that tries to implement this sandbox idea. Very new and extremely alpha, but mostly works as a proof of concept (except haven't figured out how to get Shelley working yet), and I'm sure there's a ton of bugs and things to work through, but could be fun to test and experiment with in a vps and report back any issues. 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This is an astonishing thing to say, but the switch was a single shot prompt using a frontier model. I\u2019m happy to add some selector there, but that is also the point of this article: do you really need me to make it configurable when you can switch the tool over to ", "context": "article author", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Devtools must be open source"}, {"id": 745254769, "item_id": 46578423, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46578423", "by": "crawshaw", "date": "2026-01-11", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "we decided to open source the exe.dev agent, Shelley", "excerpt": "I have always assumed this is about individual projects, but let me try talking about our team effort. We just launched exe.dev, and have lots of projects. In particular, we are spending a lot of time on file systems. The easy one is copy-on-write VM cloning, which existing software provides for us. More interestingly, I believe the standard cloud approach of putting everything on a NAS by default is wrong. Doing bet", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (January 2026)"}], "threads": [{"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46397609", "title": "Exe.dev/", "mentions": 4}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47849097", "title": "Show HN: GoModel \u2013 an open-source AI gateway in Go; 44x lighter than LiteLLM", "mentions": 3}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49156111", "title": "Devtools must be open source", "mentions": 2}, {"url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48413629", "title": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? 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There is no deploy step, which is a surprising amount of time savings. They also have nice things like email receive/send, the ability to issue phone n", "context": "", "use_case": "AI agent on exe.dev VMs", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Opus 5.5"}, {"id": 796917985, "item_id": 49807374, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49807374", "by": "ChaseRensberger", "date": "2026-09-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "another Go harness i keep up to date with is:", "excerpt": "happy to see more harnesses in the Go space, i've had a fun time building https://github.com/ChaseRensberger/wingman i think the language primitives map well to the natural desire to use these tools across networks and in concurrent workloads. another Go harness i keep up to date with is: https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley (exe.dev team)", "context": "", "use_case": "Go agent harness", "switched_from": "", "story": "Unreal Agent"}, {"id": 792432018, "item_id": 49527001, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49527001", "by": "chews", "date": "2026-09-01", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "they have an agent of their own called shelley (which I used locally as well)", "excerpt": "I've not, but really should. I run it on exe.dev, it's an ephemeral VM company and they have an agent of their own called shelley (which I used locally as well), Having kicked the tires on DSH(deepseek harness), I ported Shelley's skills into DSH, they are pretty simple text files that were easy to bridge over, it is more verbose but the plugin nature of it was really easy to extend, for example, I built a plugin tha", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"}, {"id": 792079984, "item_id": 49504999, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49504999", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-08-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I use my budget with Shelley on exe.dev.", "excerpt": "Similarly, I use my budget with Shelley on exe.dev. But it seems nice that as far as I can tell, for ChatGPT usage, coding agents compete on a level footing. I still might try ChatGPT Work sometime if there was some feature I couldn't get from Shelley.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Understanding ChatGPT Work"}, {"id": 790266835, "item_id": 49391677, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49391677", "by": "nzoschke", "date": "2026-08-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "exe.dev + Shelley + terminal multiplexer", "excerpt": "How does this compare to https://github.com/pingdotgg/t3code or https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo? Is there a good resource indexing all the coding agent tools / harnesses? Every awesome list I've found so far seems very incomplete, but I'm sure its impossible to keep up. My daily drivers are still: - exe.dev + Shelley + terminal multiplexer (https://zmx.sh/ or tmux) + `codex` CLI - Conductor.build I would love an op", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: Proliferate- open-source, self-hostable Codex for any coding agent"}, {"id": 788773248, "item_id": 49298328, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49298328", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-08-14", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Shelley is very good", "excerpt": "If you like running everything in a VM and using a web browser as your UI, Shelley is very good: https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley It works nicely in the browsers on my tablet and phone, too. On exe.dev you can ask it to customize itself, and it will automatically rebase your customizations when upgrading to a new release.", "context": "", "use_case": "web-based coding agent in a VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "GLM-5.3: Frontier Coding with Emergent Cyber Capabilities"}, {"id": 786531265, "item_id": 49158204, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49158204", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-08-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Their main software product, Shelley, is open source", "excerpt": "And? It's a convenience for their users (and most users for sure want this) for easy access to frontier closed and also open models (Fireworks). They advise also there is no markup or profit made for them in providing this managed gateway. I guess I don't understand the OP's point even. Is there some conflict with providing this service and still being passionate about open source? IMV the answer is no. Their main so", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Devtools must be open source"}, {"id": 785964912, "item_id": 49122807, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49122807", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-07-31", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "The coding agent I use (Shelley on exe.dev) has a pulldown menu where you choose the LLM when starting a new conversation. There is no lock-in.", "excerpt": "The coding agent I use (Shelley on exe.dev) has a pulldown menu where you choose the LLM when starting a new conversation. There is no lock-in. Conversations are not precious. Although, I do use ChatGPT more nowadays because their subscriptions work with Shelley. Sometimes I try other models after I hit the weekly cap on the subscription.", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "The Session You Cannot take with you"}, {"id": 780466816, "item_id": 48779176, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48779176", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-07-03", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "you could just use a great agent/harness like Shelley that already uses sqlite to store converians is searchable from the UI as well.", "excerpt": "Or you could just use a great agent/harness like Shelley that already uses sqlite to store converians is searchable from the UI as well. https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent with searchable history", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: ctx \u2013 Search the coding agent history already on your machine"}, {"id": 774663249, "item_id": 48416453, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416453", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Build with Shelley, no need to deploy it's already on the VM", "excerpt": "Up to 50 VMs with your shared resource pool for $20/mo, just all their unique features like http integrations and Shelley of course is just native, their exeuntu image has everything you need. Build with Shelley, no need to deploy it's already on the VM (tell Shelley to setup systemd to \"productionize\" it) with a my-vm.exe.xyz url with auto-https via exe's https proxy where you can keep it private to your exe login o", "context": "", "use_case": "building apps on the VM", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 774627233, "item_id": 48414202, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414202", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-06-05", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "exe.dev + their Shelley web agent is pretty great", "excerpt": "I'm a bit of a fanboy, but exe.dev + their Shelley web agent is pretty great", "context": "", "use_case": "web coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What is your (AI) dev tech stack / workflow? (June 2026)"}, {"id": 765865873, "item_id": 47866617, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866617", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-04-22", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They have a coding agent called Shelley (https://exe.dev/shelley) that works fine in a web browser on my laptop, tablet, and phone.", "excerpt": "This already exists. I\u2019m a happy user of exe.dev VM\u2019s. They have a coding agent called Shelley (https://exe.dev/shelley) that works fine in a web browser on my laptop, tablet, and phone. I can close my laptop at at any time and the agent keeps running in the VM. It works with multiple LLM\u2019s. The main downside is that since they go through the API, it gets expensive once the monthly quota runs out. (They claim to rese", "context": "", "use_case": "web-based coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "All your agents are going async"}, {"id": 765748177, "item_id": 47859261, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47859261", "by": "jy-tan", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "It's also available as a Go library if you wish to add sandboxing to Shelley.", "excerpt": "I built Fence (https://github.com/Use-Tusk/fence) in Go, a lightweight process sandbox for CLI agents (or any command really) with filesystem and network restrictions. It's also available as a Go library if you wish to add sandboxing to Shelley.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: GoModel \u2013 an open-source AI gateway in Go; 44x lighter than LiteLLM"}, {"id": 765672880, "item_id": 47854555, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47854555", "by": "verdverm", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "", "excerpt": "> Any other Go-based AI / LLM tools folks are happy with? I can throw my hat into the ring, built on ADK, CUE, and Dagger (all also in Go); CLI, TUI, and VSCode interfaces. It's my personal / custom stack, still need to write up docs. My favorite features are powered by Dagger, sandbox with time travel, forking, jump into shell at any turn, diff between any points. Good entrypoint folder: https://github.com/hofstadte", "context": "", "use_case": "Coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: GoModel \u2013 an open-source AI gateway in Go; 44x lighter than LiteLLM"}, {"id": 765630688, "item_id": 47851918, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47851918", "by": "nzoschke", "date": "2026-04-21", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "currently familiar and happy with", "excerpt": "Looks nice, thanks for open sourcing and sharing. I'm all in on Go and integrating AI up and down our systems for https://housecat.com/ and am currently familiar and happy with: https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley -- full Go-based coding agent with LLM gateway. https://github.com/maragudk/gai -- provides Go interfaces around Anthropic / OpenAI / Google. Adding this to the list as well as bifrost to look into. Any", "context": "", "use_case": "Go coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Show HN: GoModel \u2013 an open-source AI gateway in Go; 44x lighter than LiteLLM"}, {"id": 763891073, "item_id": 47743192, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47743192", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-04-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Had Shelley/GPT5.4 do it.", "excerpt": "Had Shelley/GPT5.4 do it. Much vibe, little look at code. Grug supervisor not developer. https://github.com/jgbrwn/webquien https://quien.exe.xyz", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Quien \u2013 A better WHOIS lookup tool"}, {"id": 758706640, "item_id": 47419165, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47419165", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-03-17", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Check out exe.dev/Shelley web agent it facilitates much of what you describe by default.", "excerpt": "Check out exe.dev/Shelley web agent it facilitates much of what you describe by default.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Get Shit Done: A Meta-Prompting, Context Engineering and Spec-Driven Dev System"}, {"id": 751781090, "item_id": 46986318, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46986318", "by": "acoyfellow", "date": "2026-02-12", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "the agent Shelley on exe can search past convos when promoted too for continuation.", "excerpt": "I do a fun orchestration system for long running loops on exe.dev (small write up docs.coey.dev) and I feel like I have super powers. Self healing, I try two ways: 1) use a memory tool to store learnings for next iteration (Deja.coey.dev) and have the loop system instructions tell how to use it. One orchestrator, and sequential worker agents who run til their context is full and then hand off to the next run with lea", "context": "", "use_case": "searching past conversations", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: Has anyone achieved recursive self-improvement with agentic tools?"}, {"id": 751502880, "item_id": 46968930, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968930", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-02-10", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I'm pretty happy using Shelley", "excerpt": "I'm pretty happy using Shelley, which stores agent conversations in a Sqlite database. I can refer to a previous conversation and the agent can easily do a Sqlite query to see what happened. Although this isn't stored in git, I don't see any particularly need to since it's too detailed. Instead I have the agent write design docs (as an alternative to plan mode) and check those in. That seems like enough.", "context": "", "use_case": "agent conversation history", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ex-GitHub CEO Launches a New Developer Platform for AI Agents"}, {"id": 751064240, "item_id": 46941515, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46941515", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-02-08", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "I use it and it works well for me but there's likely plenty of bugs. Needs a lot of testing so any feedback or issues from anyone would be great.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2026)"}, {"id": 747950306, "item_id": 46746894, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46746894", "by": "skybrian", "date": "2026-01-24", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use Shelley (their web-based agent)", "excerpt": "I like running remotely using exe.dev with SyncThing to sync files to my laptop. I use Shelley (their web-based agent) but they have Claude Code installed too.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms"}, {"id": 745869985, "item_id": 46616874, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46616874", "by": "indigodaddy", "date": "2026-01-14", "stance": "warn", "quote": "haven't figured out how to get Shelley working yet", "excerpt": "I've started a project [1] recently that tries to implement this sandbox idea. Very new and extremely alpha, but mostly works as a proof of concept (except haven't figured out how to get Shelley working yet), and I'm sure there's a ton of bugs and things to work through, but could be fun to test and experiment with in a vps and report back any issues. [1] https://github.com/jgbrwn/shelley-lxc", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Remote Code Execution in OpenCode, update now"}, {"id": 744615344, "item_id": 46538459, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46538459", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-01-07", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "Shelley wrote all the code. It was also quite good at launching a browser, seeing the site, scrolling & navigating", "excerpt": "Used Shelley to write a little guestbook late at night in bed from my phone! Was a fun experience. Shelley wrote all the code. It was also quite good at launching a browser, seeing the site, scrolling & navigating, assessing the state of the things & groking what I was talking about. All zero friction. I had signed up for an https://exe.dev account to play around, check out their neat VM offering. I didn't know Shell", "context": "", "use_case": "building a guestbook from phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Shelley: A Coding Agent for Exe.dev"}, {"id": 743882897, "item_id": 46492681, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46492681", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2026-01-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "it also has a super sick web based agent, Shelley, that is quite adequate for using from the phone.", "excerpt": "Shout out to https://exe.dev for this stuff. It'a a VM provider service. It makes it stunningly easy to get https up and going, has a front end http gateway that does all the hard parts for you. But relevant to this article here, it also has a super sick web based agent, Shelley, that is quite adequate for using from the phone. I used it to build a little guestbook thing in ~2 hours, late night in bed in my phone. Li", "context": "", "use_case": "coding agent from phone", "switched_from": "", "story": "Claude Code On-the-Go"}, {"id": 742487552, "item_id": 46405472, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46405472", "by": "bnc319", "date": "2025-12-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I just maxxed out my tokens in Shelley", "excerpt": "This is awesome. I just maxxed out my tokens in Shelley, but was able to vibe code this Rails app that lets anyone register an aircraft and then fly it in a synchronized world interfaced through a Garmin G1000 knock off. Sign up (feel free to use a fake email address) and set up a flight now and let's see how many aircraft we can get going! If this is a cool idea let me know and I'll probably end up paying to continu", "context": "", "use_case": "Coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Exe.dev/"}, {"id": 742476208, "item_id": 46404763, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46404763", "by": "loulouxiv", "date": "2025-12-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I used their Shelley coding agent to vibe-code a multiplayer Queen of spade game", "excerpt": "As a test I used their Shelley coding agent to vibe-code a multiplayer Queen of spade game : https://extra-crimson.exe.xyz/", "context": "", "use_case": "vibe-coding a game", "switched_from": "", "story": "Exe.dev/"}, {"id": 742449552, "item_id": 46403097, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46403097", "by": "dizzled", "date": "2025-12-27", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "Also curious about Shelley, their LLM agent.", "excerpt": "Also curious about Shelley, their LLM agent. Turns out it makes requests to a proxy for https://fireworks.ai APIs via http://169.254.169.254/gateway/llm, such as: POST /gateway/llm/_/gateway/fireworks/inference/v1/chat/completions HTTP/1.1 Host: 169.254.169.254 User-Agent: Go-http-client/1.1 Content-Length: 491 Accept: application/json Authorization: Bearer implicit Content-Type: application/json Accept-Encoding: gzi", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Exe.dev/"}, {"id": 742369841, "item_id": 46398115, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46398115", "by": "jauntywundrkind", "date": "2025-12-26", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "It was able to debug a bunch of pretty gnarly problems", "excerpt": "I really enjoyed using this service. I signed up on my phone (using termux + ssh) and had a small webserver up and running with HTTPS in minutes, since all the HTTPS stuff is taken care of. I used the included Shelley agent, which has a perfectly adequate simple web ui, to do all development. It was able to debug a bunch of pretty gnarly problems, using screenshots & scrolling down to get check it's work. It's really", "context": "", "use_case": "AI coding agent", "switched_from": "", "story": "Exe.dev/"}, {"id": 741874002, "item_id": 46367125, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46367125", "by": "jeffrallen", "date": "2025-12-23", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "I used https://exe.dev/ and their Shelley agent to drive Claude. Give it a try, it is jaw dropping.", "excerpt": "As an experiment, I gave the source zip file to Claude and told it to make a WASM version of the app, by translating the Pascal to Go. It nailed it, first try. I cannot, unfortunately, share a link to the website it created because of the license. LLM translations of historical software to modern platforms is a solved problem. Try it, you'll see. I used https://exe.dev/ and their Shelley agent to drive Claude. 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