[locknitpicker]

> It's not very novel, though (...)

I completely disagree. The rollout of agentic tools, and even support for agent mode in IDEs, is the whole value proposition of AI code assistant services.

Otherwise you'd just have a glorified search engine in a chat window.

> (...) it's a fairly obvious step once you get something that can operate iteratively and largely independent,

There's some confusion in your reply. ReAct loops is exactly what this "operate iteratively and largely independently" represents.