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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.
Not a tools list. The tools changed three times this year; what changed underneath is where the hours go: specs in the morning, batch review in the afternoon, and the judgment work that never left.
The code got cheap. The review did not. Here is the review workflow I actually use when AI agents write most of the diff: three passes, an adversarial second agent, and the discipline of reading what ships.