January 4, 2026
Six bots, one phone, endless drama
Claude Code On-the-Go
Six pocket AIs code on your commute—cheers, fears of 24/7 grind and leaks
TLDR: A developer runs six Claude Code agents from an iPhone using a secure cloud setup and phone notifications. The community is split between excitement for mobile, asynchronous coding and anxiety about always‑on work, security risks with keys, and how to verify AI changes without a proper computer—an early peek at the future of work.
One dev just bragged about running six Claude Code agents from an iPhone—no laptop, just a rented cloud computer (a VM), a secure tunnel (Tailscale), and push alerts that buzz your phone when the AI needs you. Translation: kick off a task, put the phone away, get pinged, reply, repeat. Fans call it a lifestyle upgrade. simonw applauded the slick security with Tailscale, but warned his own “Everything” mode in the Claude app is “moderately unsafe.” Meanwhile, headmelted side‑eyed the “disposable VM” claim: if there’s a real login key on it, how disposable is it?
The vibe split fast. Productivity stans love the idea of reviewing pull requests in a coffee line, while skeptics ask how you trust AI work without running it yourself—jascha_eng confessed “otherwise it feels like driving blind.” The darkest hot take came from sideway, predicting this unlocks a 24/7 expectation for desk workers—washing dishes, walking dogs, and still coding via chatbot. There was tool talk too: m3drano says plain old SSH (secure shell) with ConnectBot works fine and skips the fancier mosh setup. Jokes flew about “train-to-prod pipelines” and “six pocket interns” on tmux. Bottom line: it’s either freedom to code anywhere—or the start of work-life meltdown.
Key Points
- •The author runs six Claude Code agents on a cloud VM and controls them entirely from an iPhone using Termius, mosh, and tmux.
- •A Vultr VM (vhf-8c-32gb) in Silicon Valley costs $0.29/hour and is accessed only via Tailscale with no public SSH exposure.
- •Session resilience is achieved with mosh and tmux auto-attach; GitHub auth is handled via standard SSH due to mosh’s agent-forwarding limitation.
- •Push notifications are implemented through a Claude PreToolUse hook (AskUserQuestion) that posts to a Poke webhook to alert the user for input.
- •Security and cost controls include Tailscale-only access, cloud firewall, nftables, fail2ban, and pay-per-use VM lifecycle managed by scripts and an iOS Shortcut.