If you're confused about how the hell AI is going to make the kind of money needed to turn a profit, I'll illustrate

[AZJonnie]

23. Well yeah I don't have Gemini running locally like I do Ollama and a couple other models

But for me the benefit of agentic Gemini is that I've given it permission to read individual folders in my Source directory (code projects) and can tell it "look here" and it will do it, and then I can say "change that file, in place" and it will do it. No back and forth uploading files to the Perplexity chatbot, copy/pasting code it responded with, etc. That is what I understand "agentic" to mean in my somewhat limited world/understanding.

I know of course in real life it's talking to Gemini running in the cloud but it's almost entirely just looking at my own code/the project and it's usually just form related stuff, sometimes they're drupal, sometimes symfony, sometimes laravel projects, almost always just PHP and javascript pieces. Oh, and I have it make a lot of database migrations for me. I've only a few times asked it to make API calls, and it was to a very well-known and well-documented API, so I really don't know much about it's ability to discover and communicate with existing web services other than that one.