feat: update tasks docs #18659
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Co-authored-by: Ben Potter <ben@coder.com>
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| | **Automating actions in the IDE** | Supplement tedious development with agents | Small refactors, generating unit tests, writing inline documentation, code search and navigation | [IDE Agents](./ide-agents.md) in Workspaces | | ||
| | **Developer-led investigation and setup** | Developers delegate research and initial implementation to AI, then take over in their preferred IDE to complete the work | Bug triage and analysis, exploring technical approaches, understanding legacy code, creating starter implementations | [Tasks](./tasks.md), to a full IDE with [Workspaces](../user-guides/workspace-access/index.md) | | ||
| | **Prototyping & Business Applications** | User-friendly interface for engineers and non-technical users to build and prototype within new or existing codebases | Creating dashboards, building simple web apps, data analysis workflows, proof-of-concept development | [Tasks](./tasks.md) | | ||
| | **Full background jobs & long-running agents** | Agents that run independently without user interaction for extended periods of time | Automated code reviews, scheduled data processing, continuous integration tasks, monitoring and alerting | [Tasks](./tasks.md) API *(in development)* | |
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I tell a lot of customers that background jobs should always have a clear outcome with tests. I think it's good to explain that long-running tasks should have well-defined final states.
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| Follow the Coder Documentation for [Connecting to Workspaces](../user-guides/workspace-access/index.md) to connect to your Coder Workspaces with your favorite IDEs. |
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You may also link to coder_app or registry documentation so people know how to get ides into the workspace?
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