Here's a new term of art I like: asynchronous coding agents, to describe the category of software that includes OpenAI Codex and Gemini Jules - cloud-based tools where you submit a prompt and they check out your repo, iterate on a solution and finish by submitting a pull request.

Jules used that term in the headline of their general availability announcement today: "Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone."

I also spotted it in the press release for GitHub's own implementation of this pattern, the somewhat vaguely named "Coding Agent for GitHub Copilot", which they introduce with the line "GitHub Copilot now includes an asynchronous coding agent":