Anthropic recently killed the ability for third parties to use the Claude Code subscription, and it's assumed they're subsidising that price heavily. Which is fine, but it's a good reminder of the vendor lock-in risk. One policy change and your workflow breaks. Twill is agent-agnostic (Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode), so you're not betting on any single vendor's pricing decisions.

On the cost for solo devs, yeah, if you're one person running one agent at a time on your laptop, the sub is probably the better deal today. No argument there. The cloud agent model starts to make sense when you want to fire off multiple tasks in parallel.

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gbnwl 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Not sure if you've seen it yourself but Claude code can kick off parallel agents working in their own worktrees natively now. I do it all the time.

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willydouhard 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, the difference is that Twill launches dedicated infra on each sandbox for each task. This means you can work on multiple tasks requiring a DB migration for instance.

Also you can fire and forget tasks (my favorite) and don't have to keep your laptop running at night.

	▲	verdverm 31 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		See also Cowork and other upcoming Anthropic features. See also Show HN, this exact product is frequently shown as a github link. The paradigm shift in Ai means what you are making is (1) filling a gap until the primaries implement it, most have it in their pipeline if not already (2) how easy it is to replicate with said Ai using my preferred tech stack