Claude & Codex on Tablet!? NO PC NEEDED

追加: 2026-05-09

[00:00:00]In this video, we're going to answer a question I get pretty often about how do you get started with AI agents or AI coding if you don't have a laptop or a computer. There's a couple different ways you can go to lovable or replet agent sites that allow you to spin stuff up on the web browser. But today, what we're going to do instead is the equivalent of cloud gaming just for the terminal. You know how you're playing Xbox on your TV. We're doing the same thing just with AI agents on a terminal somewhere else. That way you can spin up cloud code or codecs just like all the cool kids. Just a quick heads up, this is not free. However, I think it's the best solution to code from your tablet and get involved with tools like Codeex and Claude Code and it is so much less money than a MacBook. Let's get into it.

[00:00:33]All right, just a heads up. I did the screen recording of the tablet earlier and uh there was a problem with the recording of my face, but we're just using this here Samsung tablet with a the only peripherals we have are a wireless keyboard and mouse. May as well make it easy on yourself, right? But nothing wild. This will work with any tablet, Mac or Android. Like I said, all the CPU power is somewhere else.

[00:00:49]Anything will do the job for you, probably even your phone. First thing we're going to do is we're going to go over to hostinger.com. and you can get there by clicking the first link in the description. From there, just scroll down to VPS on the lefth hand side.

[00:00:59]Scroll up and click get VPS, a KVM. Then we're going to choose our server location. In my case, United States that's closest to me. And now we're picking a plain operating system. We're going to go withu, which is Linux. And it will install that onto our VPS.

[00:01:12]Choose a root password. They say choose a strong one, the mightiest of all time, guest. Kind of speeding through the first part of this because it's all really intuitive up until now. But you might be wondering, which plan do you go with? I'm finding that KVM2 is the sweet spot for running agents and just CPU for the dollar. So, that's what we're going to select. Like I said off the top, this isn't a free service, but we're lucky enough to have some friends over at Hostinger that have offered to sponsor this portion of the video and get us all set up with a discount code. These are already discounted off the top for new signups. However, if you use promo code EMAI, you get an additional 10% off your VPS term. So, thank you, Hostinger.

[00:01:45]Follow through naturally with payment processing and Hostinger will start spinning up our VPS. This takes a couple minutes to complete, but it's it's not so bad. It should be like 5 minutes or so and we'll meet you back here. All right, sweet. So, our VPS is spun up and the best mental model is to think of it as you're just kind of patching into somebody's computer somewhere else. So much like your own desktop if you are on your own computer, you're able to access a terminal from that computer in the cloud, which is awesome. That gives you access to all these excellent coding platforms like cloud code, like codeex, like the PI agent. All that stuff is available to you now through the hosting or VPS. So just really quickly before we can install codecs or anything like that, we need to install npm which is node package manager. And the best way I can think of to describe it, it's it's like the app store for JavaScript applications. Okay, so it just allows you to access the installers for codecs and whatnot. So the way you do that is you type in apt space install space npm and then click enter and it's going to install all of the dependencies so that you can have access to the uh JavaScript app store. Okay. Then we're going to go and install Codex. Now that we've got npm, we can download our codec app. So you go to chatbt.com/codex.

[00:02:54]Then scroll all the way down to the bottom where it says install codeex in the terminal, which is the far right window. Copy that and then press control shiftv in the terminal. And that will launch the installer for codeex. It's going to take a minute or two to install. And then we are ready to rock.

[00:03:09]If it seems like this part of the video is going a little bit quickly, uh you can just pause and go back. It's because it should go a little bit quickly.

[00:03:15]There's really nothing to it. Once you install Codex, all you have to do to fire it up is just type Codex and enter.

[00:03:20]So the first time you run Codex, it'll ask you exactly how you want to sign in.

[00:03:24]First one being sign in with Chat GBT.

[00:03:26]And you can use your GPT plus subscription with this, which is excellent. Second one is a device code, which is the one we're going to use. And just think of it like since we can't sit down at this computer in the cloud, we need to do it from a remote device, and that's what this device code is doing.

[00:03:39]Still uses your GPT subscription. Still is good. Just this is the way we do it from from the VPS. Third one is if you want to use an API key, right? So if you go and buy credits at platform.opAI, this is how you'd use those extra usage credits. Okay? So when you do that, it's going to pop up with two things. The first thing is a URL that you're going to use to log in. And the second is a device code. Now, try not to show the device code to people because that's a security risk, but you can log in through this portal from your phone or the tablet that you're currently working on or whatever. Okay? It'll bring you to that page. Punch in the device code and that will authenticate your codecs in this VPS. It's going to prompt you to allow access. Essentially, it's just saying, "Do you trust the contents of this folder, you're going to say yes because it's your VPS. There's nothing there. It's just standard sort of boiler plate when you start a new project." And then that's it. You're set up with codeex. You can get in and start building some cool stuff. And now that you know how to do this, you can go in and repeat the process with the PI agent if you want or cloud code or anything like that. So, while you can stop right here and then, you know, just go off onto the YouTube rabbit hole, start burning through tutorials, there's a couple things that I would recommend you set up just off the top to make your life a little easier as you move on.

[00:04:42]Very first thing is the GitHub CLI. And you don't have to look anything up to download this or whatever. You can even just tell Codeex to go and download install the GitHub CLI, which is exactly what we're going to do. I want you to install the GitHub CLI. Then it's going to look through and see exactly how to do that. It might prompt you for a couple permissions to make changes to the directory. That is okay. GitHub is totally safe. It's just going to do this every single time as a safety net just to make sure that you're aware of the changes it's making and it's not doing anything you don't want it to do. So, it's going to prompt us to log in with gh GitHub O login. So, if you type in that command and you're already logged in on your tablet to GitHub, it'll automatically authenticate. If it's not logged in on your tablet, it'll give you a URL and a device code to go and just like we did with ChattBT to authenticate this device. Go through with that. Then you're ready to go and you'll have access to all of the GitHub features that we use pretty much all the time over here. One more thing as well, Codex is pretty capable just as it comes.

[00:05:35]There are some things you can do to help it along the way when you want to finish tasks. And one of those things is downloading skills files. One of the best places to find skill files depending on what it is you're doing is called skills.sh. It is a database of user skills that is put out by Verscell and it's got a lot of really useful stuff like web design for example. So we're just going to go and I'll install that one for the sake of this video.

[00:05:57]Grab this, copy this, and move it over.

[00:06:00]Control shiftV. Enter. And it's going to install that skill. It's like teaching our agent the guidelines. Another one I really really like with design is called Hashu Design. So, we're going to find that repo in GitHub. I'll leave a link in the description and same thing. We're going to copy this link and paste it into our terminal. Control shiftV and then it's going to install the Hashu design link as well. So, don't know if you see where we're going with this, but we're going to spin up a landing page really quick just to show you what you can do and how you can use these tools from your tablet to do awesome stuff. So I'm just going to clear the window, start from a fresh session just so that the context isn't bloated with all these different install commands and whatnot and then a bit of navigation. Okay, so if you're ever lost in codeex or cloud code or pi, you can just go slash and then it'll run through a list of commands. Okay, so on the left hand side it'll tell you what the command is and on the right there'll be a short description. So you can go through and go slashmodel for example and you can swap between the different models that are provided by codeex or cloud code or whatever you signed into with the pi agent. So another one you can do is go down and click list skills for example just to see the different workflows and skills that the agent has on hand.

[00:07:04]Right? So there's a few different ones on codeex as it stands but we can see the Hashu design skill that we just installed. Now we can prompt the agent to use this design skill to spin up a landing page. We create a simple landing page called built from a tablet about how easy it would be to set up a VPS on Hostinger that allows you to run codecs from your tablet. Let's just make a landing page about that. Awesome. So, our agent is done spinning up the website. Now, I just need to check it locally. So, I'm going to ask it for the local preview URL. That is the demo that they've got on the VPS spun up on the local machine just so we can check exactly what's going on there before we push it out to the internet. This is the website that our agent spun up. Hey, why it feels good there? Why does it feel good? It's all about how you can build things from a tablet through a VPS. Very cool. So, this is only on our VPS right now, but it's still really good for development because you could always just switch the views. put the VPS and the code editor on one side and then the website on the right side so you can see the edits as it's happening which is very similar to what lovable and the replet agent actually does. They've got your preview window. The only problem with that is this is only living on the VPS right now, right? Like it's not internetwide. So we're going to tell it to stop the local development server and push it to GitHub so that we can post it to the internet. You're going to be prompted to approve changes a few more times as time goes on. That is a good thing. It's a security measure. So just make sure you're reading what's going on. Click yes. Then the next thing you know, this is going to be pushed to GitHub through our brand new GitHub CLI.

[00:08:32]So for a website like this, there are a few places you can host static sites for free. But if you want something a little bit more robust, like hosting app backend or a couple different websites, you can go over to hostinger.com where they can do that for you as well. And you can just bring in this repo directly from GitHub. So go to the h panel on hostinger.com, click the websites tab, and then you can pick your plan. As you can see, it says everything you need to get your website online. They offer the single, premium, business, and cloud startup plans. Even like the premium plan at $3 a month, you get the domain for free. This could be a really good option if you don't want to go through a bunch of DNS records to host your websites or apps or anything like that.

[00:09:07]You can keep it all self-contained in Hostinger, bring it in from GitHub, host it on their one platform, and not have to mess around. Don't, you know, think twice about it. This comes down to what works best for you. There's a world of possibilities now. So, now you can go get caught up on the YouTube rabbit hole of all sorts of different tutorials and stuff. The main takeaway here is you've got a functional coding assistant that you can access anywhere. You can use it from your tablet or your phone or whatever. And you didn't have to spend a bunch of money on expensive hardware. So again, really quick, I want to thank the folks at Hostinger for the hookup. If you click the link in the description, you'll be able to get the best price on your VPS and an additional 10% off if you use promo code EMAI. Thank you so much for hanging out with me. Cannot wait to see what you build with this.