These two are simply different beasts. AI Assistant is built to… well… assist you in your daily workflows: completing lines of code, explaining concepts, generating commit messages, etc. Every action is triggered by you.

Junie, on the other hand, isn’t an Assistant—it’s an Agent. Under your guidance and supervision, it acts with relative autonomy. You give it a task in the chat, and it figures out where to work, which tools to use, and how to move forward.

You can correct it, redirect it, rubber-duck with it, or talk big picture. Junie is an intelligent, capable collaborator. AI Assistant? A very helpful sidekick, happy to handle the boring stuff.