That's a fair question, and you're right that you can do this with a single command plus git.
The difference I'm exploring is defaults, not capability. In most tools the safe mode is "suggest, then approve", or "set a dangerous flag and remember to recover later". Here the default is the opposite: apply immediately, snapshot automatically, and make undo trivial. There are no flags to remember and no mode switches.
That sounds subtle, but in practice it changes iteration speed a lot. You stop deciding whether it's safe to let the tool act, and instead decide only whether the result is useful.
On agency: the LLM itself only produces text diffs. File writes and shell execution are fully deterministic and constrained on the client side. There is no autonomous command execution beyond writing files.
The difference I'm exploring is defaults, not capability. In most tools the safe mode is "suggest, then approve", or "set a dangerous flag and remember to recover later". Here the default is the opposite: apply immediately, snapshot automatically, and make undo trivial. There are no flags to remember and no mode switches.
That sounds subtle, but in practice it changes iteration speed a lot. You stop deciding whether it's safe to let the tool act, and instead decide only whether the result is useful.
On agency: the LLM itself only produces text diffs. File writes and shell execution are fully deterministic and constrained on the client side. There is no autonomous command execution beyond writing files.