It's nice to have I guess. But still not as good as just using the Cli in the terminal, while in VS code or other fork, where you can glance the source control from time to time.

I kind of don't know what to think of startups that keep launching with things like this as their main facility?

Perhaps you can have a moment's attention like that, but... was it not apparent to everyone that this was going to be launched by the lab imminently?

Similarly, there are a bunch of stories about people's startups being killed by relatively trivial feature launches by OpenAI or Anthropic. And I find myself just super confused why people are chasing the super simple intermediary roles and then presenting as surprised.

I have already achieved the same thing getting my openclaw to instruct and manage claude code.

It also seems to provide a substantially better experience of claude code, picking up when it is looping and breaking it and restarting, plus handling all the stupid questions claude code asks, hanging on. (Even when started with dangerously I cant be rid of them).

All in all they seem to be a match made in heaven and I strongly suggest you try this.