My question with these is always "what happens when the model doesn't need prompting?". For example, there was a brief period where IDE integrations for coding

My question with these is always "what happens when the model doesn't need prompting?". For example, there was a brief period where IDE integrations for coding agents were a huge value add - folks spent eons crafting clever prompts and integrations to get the context right for the model. Then... Claude, Gemini, Codex, and Grok got better. All indications are that engineers are pivoting to using foundation model vended coding toolchains and their wrappers. This is rapidly becoming a more extreme version of the classic "what if google does that?" as the foundation model vendors don't necessarily need to target your business or even think about it to eat it.