It's a lot different than interacting with the webpage prompts. Running a client locally that can interact with your IDE, execute your test and build processes, interact with version control, write the files it suggests as a PR, and has context memory changes how you code, for sure. If you've used an LLM with context memory (eg Chatgpt plus) where it can infer things you mention or derive intent from previous conversations from weeks ago, it's gets eerie.

Agents will read all (or some, if you set this way) your code and apply the generated changes directly into as many files as needed. They can also get information from other services you have locally or run shell commands (like tests, or git) and use the result if you set them this way.

It's quite different.

Yeah, one sounds cooler. It's all just hype and vibes, no substance.

Yes, the agentic tools are much much better because they can gather their own context automatically and run feedback loops to self-correct errors.