Comment by ghc

I sympathize with your feeling that there is a "gap", but I'm fairly certain that both my ideal workflow and your ideal workflow are unlikely to be anything more than evolutionary dead ends, like early automobiles that inherited the shape of horse-drawn carriages.

I don't know where the evolution of coding agents will take us in the next couple of years, but I would not be shocked if it looks more like a GitHub issue/PR tracker than a code+chat interface with autocomplete, etc. I'm already noticing the I'm starting to rely on tux + multiple CC instances with independent work trees instead of babysitting each proposed change.