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@levelsio has coded almost exclusively on his VPS with Claude Code for almost a…

2026-06-28 · 09:22 UTC ·@levelsio ·2 min read

Brief

@levelsio reports coding almost entirely on his VPS with Claude Code for nearly a year, praising instant live edits, device switching, overnight runs via /goal, and rapid go-live from scratch. He experienced only two brief outages (~10 seconds) in 12 months, previously reduced deploys from ~1 minute to ~3 seconds, and argues AI coding agents will run in the cloud, while advising backups and staging for teams.

Why it matters

@levelsio has coded almost exclusively on his VPS with Claude Code for almost a year, live-editing his production server; it only 'messed up' twice in 12 months, causing about 10 seconds of downtime each time.

Key details

  • He cut deployment time from ~1 minute (local test → push → auto-deploy) to ~3 seconds after abandoning a local Nginx workflow on a new MacBook Pro, and now can start projects and go live in seconds and run tasks overnight with /goal.
  • He endorses cloud/server-first AI coding agents (citing @theo’s ~6-month prediction and @karpathy’s move to cloud), recommends using a staging server for team/regulatory contexts, and maintains 3-2-1 on-/off-site backups.
Source evidence

✨ I think I've been coding almost solely on my VPS with Claude Code for almost a year now

All I can say it's just fantastic:
- no need to keep laptop open ever
- no laptop battery drain
- can switch to phone or any other device you like whenever you want to continue (like when you're outside)
- it just keeps going all night while you sleep (esp with /goal)
- you can start hacky projects from scratch and go live in seconds because you're already on the server which is great to ship things and get it used by people fast (not stuck on your local laptop webserver)
- it just feels like living in the future

I used to code on my laptop, test locally, then push to GitHub, then it auto pulled and deploy to production, that'd take me ~1 minute to get a new feature out

But then when I bought a new Mac Book Pro a few years ago I was too lazy to install a local Nginx environment, so I just started pushing to prod and everything went fine, and I sped up deploying to about 3 seconds from laptop to server, which people called me crazy for too

But now with Claude Code on my VPS in the last year, it just live edits on my production server, which sounds like it should go wrong but it just doesn't, it's very careful and only twice in 12 months messed up which meant my site didn't load for 10 seconds which is OK

If I wasn't working solo, like at a big company, I' think I'd recommend the same workflow but with a staging server, so it wouldn't touch production, for safety and regulatory reasons etc. but for me it's fine

I agree with @theo completely, it's clear to me this is where it's going, also seeing @karpathy with Claude moving to the cloud (via Slack etc), I think AI "agents" and AI coding will operate on servers / from the cloud first

P.S. I have 3-2-1 backups, multiple on-site and off-site backups which you should also even if you wouldn't code with AI, safety first!

Theo - t3.gg (@theo)

I’d estimate we’re ~6 months from most devs moving their code agents off of their laptops

— https://nitter.net/theo/status/2071083700385955906#m