Agentic Engineering: What Do AI Coding Tools Do With Your Code?

In the first post of this five-part series, I wrote about the LLMs I currently like to use for Angular development. In the second post, I looked at the apps and harnesses around those models: Codex, Claude desktop app, Cursor, Antigravity, VS Code, WebStorm, and a few more. In the third post, I focused on money: subscriptions, API costs, enterprise plans, token usage, reasoning levels, and cost control. I originally planned to squeeze all of this into that costs post, but it quickly became too m...