The difference is AI is closing on doing the EXACT work with the EXACT info as a junior dev. Give an LLM a Jira ticket and a codebase and it can push a PR. Spreadsheets are great, but that was a tool that minimized effort but didn't remove it. LLMs can directly replace a remote junior with no visible difference already.

> Give an LLM a Jira ticket and a codebase and it can push a PR

Not really though can it, unless that codebase and Jira happens to pattern match correctly somewhere.

I'd say that the difference is just that LLMs have a natural language interface (for good or for ill).