Agents can orchestrate several tasks and typially will work inside an entire code project (folder), either in your computer (a local directory) or remotely using a Github repository.

IDE (integrated developing environments) are powerful text editors, the most famous being Visual Studio Code.

Thanks to plug-ins like:

• Copilot
• Claude Code
• ChatGPT…

They can add an “assistant”.

There are dedicated IDEs (derived from VS Code) that have an AI-first approach:

• Cursor
• Google Antigravity

At the time of writing Antigravity is free to use altough with limited usage of the LLMs, and can be a good first attempt if you didnt try a coding agent.

In the right pane you can ask to your agent the desired changes to your code and this will make a plan and start implementing the items in the “to do” list.

The assistants can execute code in your machine and evaluate the output to make decisions (e.g. running a command and seeing the error to debug it)

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