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Agent mode and autonomous mode get used interchangeably and they are not the same thing. The difference is who closes the loop: you, after every task, or the system, on a schedule. A working engineer's disambiguation.
Autonomous mode is when the agent runs the whole loop without you in it: plan, act, check, repeat, until the task is done or it gets stuck. Here is what that means, how it differs from agent mode, and where the real risk lives.
There's something profound about waking up to work that was done while you slept. Not just done, but done with a thoroughness that makes you question your own approach to problem-solving.