>>simonw+(OP)
Neither of you read the content of the OP methinks. Many of the AI skeptics framed in the blog do not leverage agentic frameworks. In fact, they are explicitly turned off by how the chat interface cannot tackle large codebases as you can't just throw vector embeddings into the chat window. Thus, they write off AI completely.
In order to do this you need to set up your IDE and connect it to an API, either local or one of the paid services. I am not aware of any paid service that has an unlimited token plan
through the API.