An AI that lives in your project beats a chat tab you shuttle files through.
My first workflow was a chat tab: paste code in, paste the answer back, lose the thread, paste it again. It broke constantly because the AI never actually saw my project. The shift was to an AI that works inside the real repo — it reads the files, runs the commands, and keeps the context the shuttle kept dropping.
I tested setting up a project so the in-editor agent could see everything at once instead of through a straw — a starter scaffold and a first real session.
The in-project agent. It sees the whole repo, so its fixes fit the code that's actually there.
The copy-paste shuttle. Every round-trip lost context, and the bugs lived in the gaps.
Stop describing your code to the AI. Put the AI where the code is.