The key difference: on-demand human-in-the-loop. Agents never block waiting for you. They pick up work, execute, commit, and exit. You make decisions asynchronously when ready.
This eliminates the biggest bottleneck in agent systems—the human becoming a serial dependency.
Proof isn't in benchmarks or simulation. It's 706 commits shipped in 5 days using standard tools (Taskwarrior, Zellij, Claude Code). System got rate-limited, not me.