# How Adam Wathan actually uses coding agents

Tailwind CSS, Refactoring UI

**If you take one thing:** `Every tedious OSS task`, fed to cloud Claude Code. since January 2026 he hands the Tailwind chores he would otherwise neglect to Claude Code on the web and keeps working; ten of his 2026 Tailwind commits carry its session links.

- **Agent:** Amp (web) ([source, 2026-09-29](https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2105058269332987954))
- **Agent:** Codex (app) ([source, 2026-05-14](https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2055037124173263269))
- **Agent:** Claude Code (web) ([source, 2026-01-31](https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2017616165455949851))
- **Model:** Claude Sonnet 4.5 ([source, 2025-10-12](https://x.com/adamwathan/status/1977443454029602860))
- **Harness:** Cloud agents: Amp threads in remote Orbs ([source, 2026-09-29](https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2105058269332987954))
- **Rules file:** AGENTS.md ([source, 2026-04-08](https://x.com/adamwathan/status/2041673683987493302))

## In their words

> I shipped a change to a PHP 5 + Node 8 project the other night that would’ve been a nightmare without Amp and Orbs.

> I must be going crazy because I’ve been using Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app for literally months?

> Man don't sleep on Claude Code in the desktop app/on the web.

> Sonnet 4.5 one-shotted this refactoring by the way, which actually blows my mind.

> With orbs it just worked, no configuration, it just figured out how to create an environment where everything ran and I could preview my changes effortlessly.


Archetype (our label): Orchestrator. Newest source: 2026-09-29.
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