W&B HiveMind vs Pier Shell

W&B Hivemind is the companion app for Hivemind, Weights & Biases' platform for coding agents. Sign in with GitHub to follow your coding sessions and work with cloud agents from your iPhone or iPad. When your workspace has Agents enabled, start a cloud coding agent, choose its model and environment, and watch its work stream live. Send follow-up instructions, stop a running task, and return to agents that need your input. Open detected web ports from a running agent to preview its work. The Activity tab turns your agent work into daily rings: active agent time, conversation turns, and merged PRs fill toward goals you set, with week-over-week comparisons and streaks. The Sessions tab shows coding sessions from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini, and more, with token counts, diff stats, and live indicators. Open a session to read its conversation, tool calls, and file changes. Hivemind requires an account on a Hivemind server hosted by W&B or your organization. Live Agents access is currently limited to internal W&B employees and requires an enabled workspace and a configured environment. A built-in preview mode lets you explore sample sessions and simulated agent interactions without an account.

No separate account required Pier works with your existing iCloud account to keep supported data synchronized across your Apple devices. There’s no Pier registration, username, or password to manage. Pier is a native SSH and SFTP client built for developers who want a simple, fast way to access their servers from iPhone and Mac. Add your hosts once and keep them synced privately through iCloud. Connect to production, staging, personal servers, Raspberry Pis, and more without rebuilding your setup on every device. Pier is designed to feel at home on Apple platforms, with a clean native interface, fast terminal performance, and secure key handling.